Shark snipers Wine dots NEW HATCHES and puppies 1/24/2011 update

[seminolewind]

my poor Natalie died. I really don't know why, maybe the heat? Yesterday I noticed that she was kindof tired all day yesterday, and I could just pick her up and there was no resistance. So yesterday I put her in a pen with food and water, antibiotics, elytes, vitamins, and Corrid. Today she slept in a corner most of the day, so I picked her up and rocked her on my patio till she died.

Why does this happen? It's so sad.

 

[LovinMyPeeps]

All I know and all I care is that she's OK...

Thank goodness...

ETA: I'm so sorry Sem

I have to take one to the vet tomorrow. Pretty sure he's going to have to be put down. I want a necropsy done to figure out what happened.

 

[seminolewind]

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Mary, we surely missed you. You had us worried. Hows everything with you?

 

[hoppy]

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I'm sorry Sem. she knew you loved her to the end.

 

[sonew123]

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Sem Im so sorry! It is so so sad but Im so happy she was with you when she passed

 

[sonew123]

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wow you have avet near you that will do that? Im so sorry Lovins-what do you think is wrong with her?

 

[seminolewind]

Yea Hoppy, Natalie was one of my favorites. I think she succumbed to the heat. I've never had to dunk chickens and I've done the dunking 4 times. It's a bad year. I think my white silkie also died of heat a few months ago.

 

[dak]

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I'm very sorry for both of you. It is a bad year. A cochin breeder friend just emailed me saying he has lost several roosters this year due to heat.

Mary I don't know you well, but boy did you have people worried! Glad you're back!

 

[hoppy]

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I don't know if this would work for chickens, but my dog gets really hot so i put a cool pack inside his dog bed. they used to cover ice with sawdust to keep it from melting in the summer- what about iceblocks to cool them? (we have been warm this yr but not so we have to cool down the birds)

 

[seminolewind]

My momma silkie was heat stricken one day and I soaked her down, and she was fine. The same silkie a month later was badly heat struck, I soaked her down and brought her in the house for the night, and she was fine to go out the next night. One of my faverolles gets dunked now and then. My little bantam roo got heat struck and I dunked him and moved them to a total shade pen. He's fine. I think I lost a silkie a few months ago to heat-there was no other reason.

The sad thing is that some look normal, then they die. Or when you notice, it's too late. A few months ago, I had rehomed my whole Faverolle hatch, they were about 7 weeks old, because I realized how bad they suffer in the heat. They went to homes with real small flocks.

Natalie was always very timid about coming for water and food. But she did, so I wasn't worrying about her til it was too late. She was a stunningly beautiful hen, a real big fluffy girl, a gift from Nava.