Seven dead hens within 4 hours, not attacked. UPDATE: Teflon Poisoning!

[TexasSam]

You need to move those other birds out of the coop or they WILL die. Even just outside with a blanket covering a dog crate.

In the bathtub with a lid and open up that coop. Cardboard boxes anything

 

[AaronandAlice]

I think we found the killer, guys.

I think so too. $%#!! My husband is going to unplug it now- he's feeling really badly because he works with kitchen equipment so he had one on his work van and we just assumed it would be fine.

 

[Sassysouth]

I am so sorry!!! I wouldn’t have known either.

 

[Kathy Golla]

Oh gosh. I'm so sorry. That may be it. That makes me mad. Why does the manufacturer even do that if chicken owners use those in coops? How would you ever know that?

http://blog.mcmurrayhatchery.com/20...nt-bulbs-a-potential-danger-to-your-chickens/

https://www.rootsimple.com/2012/07/teflon-coated-light-bulbs-deadly-to-chickens/

 

[TexasSam]

I think so too. $%#!! My husband is going to unplug it now- he's feeling really badly because he works with kitchen equipment so he had one on his work van and we just assumed it would be fine.

They need some fresh air in their even if it is cold fresh air

 

[AaronandAlice]

Oh gosh. I'm so sorry. That may be it. That makes me mad. Why does the manufacturer even do that if chicken owners use those in coops? How would you ever know that?

http://blog.mcmurrayhatchery.com/20...nt-bulbs-a-potential-danger-to-your-chickens/

https://www.rootsimple.com/2012/07/teflon-coated-light-bulbs-deadly-to-chickens/

I just googled it too. We didn't know and I'm so sorry to our girls. My husband is devastated right now- blaming himself. But we just had no idea.

 

[21hens-incharge]

You and many many others did not know.
I am so very sorry.

Bathtub those birds!!

 

[AaronandAlice]

You and many many others did not know.
I am so very sorry.

Bathtub those birds!!

Do you mean to wash them as well, or just to get the living ones out of the coop?

 

[Sassysouth]

I just googled it too. We didn't know and I'm so sorry to our girls. My husband is devastated right now- blaming himself. But we just had no idea.

We are all very sad for you two. Like I said, I didn’t know either. It could have happened to anyone who didn’t know. I hope all your others do well through the night.

No bath. Just a safer place to sleep.

 

[Welshies]

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Do you mean to wash them as well, or just to get the living ones out of the coop?

Ut the living ones in the tub.