So heart broken... lost most of my best Silkie breeders to the heat

[Rachy]

I am so sorry for your loss, how utterly dreadful. Please don't give up on chickens, they will fill your heart with chicken joy once again xxxx

 

[lgelwell]

I'm so sorry! I don't know what else to say...

 

[Kuntry Klucker]

Oh! I am so sorry. I lost one of my BO hens to the heat too. It was so sad to find her dead, I did everything that I
could and still lost to mother nature. It hurts I know, but rest in the peace that they had a good home and that
they had a good life. I would rather loose them to mother nature than to being killed or eaten by a predator.

 

[welasharon]

came home to find.little lifeless Silkie bodies scattered all over their pens......... The water buckets empty. ......i just filled them up that night and they always have lasted till the next evening. I normally check them but had to go close on my old house so i was gone most the day. All those years of breeding.....of joy and love....... Gone. I can only think that some of them started standing in their water and their feathers absorb a lot of their water.... I just don't know. I've had some of these birds for six years or so..... I still have a few......nd my bantams beside them were fine...just the Silkies..... I just don't know. I really just don't feel like doing this anymore.......

Were they all in one pen? The reason I ask is I have one of the automatic chicken waterers...the red ones that you attach to a water line or I guess you could use a hose and it refills the red bowl as they drink it. I bought it, opened it and never have used it. If you can use it I will send it to you. I obviously don't need it....it has sat here for a year or more now.
sharon

 

[BooBear]

Oh Chickenzoo, I am so sad to hear of your loss as you really loved your feathered babies.

May the survivors thrive and bring back the joy to your heart. Please do not give up on them.

Many Many Hugs

 

[bj taylor]

what an awful thing to come home to. until i got my chickens i had no idea how dangerous heat is to them. it's a challenge to protect them from it.

 

[chickenzoo]

Thankyou everyone. I've not cried this hard since Sophie died......
Sadly they were in two different pens..... All my blacks and most of my Splash. My Cuckoo, reds, whites and blues were fine. My black Silkie sitting in a covered box on eggs who hasn't moved in forever is fine and she was right next door. Just don't know......

 

[welasharon]

Thankyou everyone. I've not cried this hard since Sophie died......
Sadly they were in two different pens..... All my blacks and most of my Splash. My Cuckoo, reds, whites and blues were fine. My black Silkie sitting in a covered box on eggs who hasn't moved in forever is fine and she was right next door. Just don't know......

Well I would love to send the waterer to you if you could use it. I hate it to go to waste. I use those rubbery pans from TSC and have two per pen but mine are out and about during the day so that helps too. If you want it pm me your address and I will get it out to you.
sharon