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We had a wonderful thunderstorm
today. Lots of thunder, lightening,
some pea-sized hail, & big heavy raindrops. When the rain slowed to a drizzle I decided to check on the chicks.
into the nest/roost box at night by themselves at night and had been trying to
during the day, but I keep them locked out so the old hens can lay in the nest
box. I figured they’d go into their box
when the weather turned. When I got
outside I didn’t hear them chirping so I was convinced they had gone into the
box. I was wrong; they were huddled in
a corner of the coop, all wet, and shivering.
Some of them weren’t moving.
Three of them were barely breathing when I picked them up.
down to help. He put them under running
warm water and then into a bowl of warm water until they quit shivering.
towels. Between Wes, Benjaman and I we
gathered 10 hypothermic chickens and re-heated them. I locked the rest of them into the nest/roost box and turned on
their heat lamp. These are the pics of
the 10 chickens we saved. They are all
doing well. I’ll put them out with the
rest in the morning. I’m so glad Wes
knew what to do because my only idea was to wrap them in towels and rub the
ones that weren’t moving. I’m convinced
without Wes’s idea I would have lost at least 3 of them.
especially my 2 little Wyandottes (the “Dottes”). They were the littlest one and I have one of them really
tame. We would have lost ¼ of our flock
if they didn’t all survive.
