Thunder and lighting?

[GUSRENTIT]

Is it true that nearby thunder and lighting, can kill chickens? Are they really that sensitive? If this is true, is there a way to protect them from this?
Thanks,
Gus
PS: You guys have been GREAT!

 

[Imp]

My chickens have no reaction to thunder & lightning.

Imp

 

[Oregon Blues]

I suppose it might possibly frighten them into running into the fence and getting trampled. But my poultry ignores thunder and lightening. It's hard to imagine poultry getting panicked by a storm.

It would take a direct lightning strike to kill a bird. Or a very nearby strike on wet ground where the electricity spreads over the surface of the ground. Or maybe a strike to a metal wire fence that the chicken was touching at the same time they were touching the ground.

I suggest that you simply put your birds into their coop during the storm and not worry about it.

 

[GUSRENTIT]

Thanks, just that I had read that some guy down south lost like 50 chickens in one shot, from a nearby lightning strike. Cool, one less thing to worry about.
Thanks,
Gus

 

[farmer9989]

I know of lightning striking a tree 4 horses were standing under killed all of them.sorta like winning the lotto, on chances .

 

[aoxa]

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