Tennessee

[tnchickenut]

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Sorry to hear it. Sounds like maybe there was something else that she was hiding from you and the heat may have been "the straw that broke the camels back", so to speak. I know a couple of my breeds are really suffering in this nasty heat. Most especially the Barnevelders with their down undercoat and black top feathers. Poor things.

I just lost one of my Delaware roos to a fox the other day. It took me some time to figure out it was a fox... and before I did... I was clueless as to what happened to him. Wondering makes it worse, don't it? (That is why I went on a CSI hike until I found his feathers and such - another story for another day)

My point is... I hate that you don't know what happened... it only makes you feel like maybe you should have seen something or maybe the others will go too..... You do what you can, when you can. Sorry for your loss.

 

[Grundy]

Thanks. she was a rhode island red and about a year old. I've started watering the run in the morning to try a keep it cool during the day and even more shade.
Short of that not sure what more I can do.

 

[Sissy]

just came in misting all my flock and they loved it.
opened all windows in the coop.
Grundy so sorry you lost a hen.
Georgia lee I too had a drop in Egg production.
it must be the heat and humidity.
Iwatered down the metal roof on all the coops
thats all I can do and hope for the best.I did put big chucks of ice
in their water'rs

 

[jla0499]

Just started posting here. I have a few malay, but have owned just about everything over the years. I am near Bristol TN.

 

[kcsunshine]

and to the Tennessee group. Just jump in with both feet - we're all a little crazy.

 

[tnchickenut]

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the voices tell me I'm not crazy, though...

 

[bibliophile birds]

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it's a bit of a drive, but we're having a chicken picnic in Maryville on the 26th if you'd like to come down, meet some of us crazy folks, and talk chickens. the thread for the picnic is here.

 

[Okla-doodle-doo]

jla0499 Welcome aboard! Hey we like Malays. Can you post some pics of them and /or tell us about what you have.Are they bantam or standards?

 

[jla0499]

I have the standards. I just have a few. Malay are really hard to find, especially good ones.

 

[Jenski]

Sissy, I have been putting ice in the waterers too - - sometimes twice a day if it's hot! Some days I leave out pie pans with iced Gatorade (half-strength, per my avian vet).
We have fans up outside the pens too. It's just nasty here.

jla0499, welcome! The Malays are beautiful.