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Maybe I'm not meant to have chickens in the Alaskan interior.
Others seem to make it work. If you have read some of my comments you know that I had a "not so good" winter with my Buckeyes.
In the heat of the summer I lost three hens for no reason whatsoever. Two were in the laying boxes, heads hanging down, eyes closed. One was on the floor and looked like it was in mid-walking but collapsed. The last one, today (the fourth), was upside down, eyes closed, in the hen house by the hen door to the outside - which had not been shut for the past 24 hours. Not hot the past few days. I live on a small hill and have pretty good air-flow in the hen house during the summer.
A friend of mine thinks they all had heart attacks, as a result of the stress THESE chickens were under all winter (confinement for 6 months). The cold where I live is brutal and it was a LONG winter by anyone's standards.
Every time I go out to the coop I count the chickens in the yard as I am so afraid that I will open the door and find another dead.
Has anyone had this happen to them?
Others seem to make it work. If you have read some of my comments you know that I had a "not so good" winter with my Buckeyes.
In the heat of the summer I lost three hens for no reason whatsoever. Two were in the laying boxes, heads hanging down, eyes closed. One was on the floor and looked like it was in mid-walking but collapsed. The last one, today (the fourth), was upside down, eyes closed, in the hen house by the hen door to the outside - which had not been shut for the past 24 hours. Not hot the past few days. I live on a small hill and have pretty good air-flow in the hen house during the summer.
A friend of mine thinks they all had heart attacks, as a result of the stress THESE chickens were under all winter (confinement for 6 months). The cold where I live is brutal and it was a LONG winter by anyone's standards.
Every time I go out to the coop I count the chickens in the yard as I am so afraid that I will open the door and find another dead.
Has anyone had this happen to them?
