Came home yesterday to find almost all of my chickens overcome with heat. We’d butchered four over the weekend so sixteen birds were laying around half dead. I sprayed them with the hose and thirteen of them perked up, two of them remained unconscious and one died. I kept the hose running on the other two and they finally came around but couldn’t stand so Steve butchered them when he got home.
Whew...coulda been worse. A few more minutes and they would’ve all died, probably. I’m going to spray them periodically today.
Sorry about Hyacinth’s litter too...you gonna let her try again?
It's cooled off here and looks like it's gonna rain...I sure hope it does.
My parents, older sister, and her two kids just left. They got here on Sunday. She's the one with colon cancer. She had a colostomy bag put in two-three weeks ago. She looks ok, but I think it's gonna be a hard year.
So, you having chicken for dinner? :-) Do you have any idea what they weighed?
Mrsnad
Can you set up a little misting system, with an old hose, that will keep their area cooler?