hypothermia

Hello, I have quite a sad story to share on this site and I need some help. I had a Brahma chicken named Butterscotch, a Beautiful chicken, She was very talented, adorable, and quite the flightful chicken, She would fly on top of the gate when I came down to feed them and she would always get...

Hey guys. When we went outside tonight to do a final chicken check we found our rooster face down in the dirt. Thinking he was dead we went to pick him up and he moved. We have been trying to get him GRADUALLY warmed up with water. I just need to know if there’s anything else I can do ow...

My white Chinese goose got out last night, he had a heat lamp and wind blocks but I guess he never went into them. What's the best I can do to help him? I got him wrapped up in warm towels in a bath. His temperature was only about 90F when I got him in, and he was completely blue. It's reading...

Hi there, I have six chickens... some are golden brown, others are black with purple and orange tinge and two are big white ones. all about 9 months. On Monday we saw the two black ones in the same nesting box as they only want to use one and one black one is brooding, the other was trying to...

Its been very rainy here in western WA. We had just put up a roof for our run but hadn't finished installing the metal roof just yet. (Just the plywood and the tar paper was installed and the structure was reinforced). The winds blew away the paper, and the roof got all leaky... Needless to say...

My bird Meatball is a 4-month-old heritage turkey hen. She's a good size and is very feisty, but this morning she fell off the coop and got stuck in near-freezing mud. We found her likely within two hours (I was not awake when it happened) kicking her legs in a pinwheel unable to get up. We...

Hi! We’ve been getting A LOT of rain today, and my California chickens aren’t quite used to it. So today when I opened the coop door to feed them, all the babies ran out and the mama silkie did too. It took me a while to get everyone back inside and mama waited until everyone was back in. But...

I came home yesterday to find one of my black sex-link hens soaking wet, staggering and gasping for air. It’s 30-degrees out, poor thing. It looked like she tried to get a drink of water and somehow fell in, she was about 10 feet from the water dish. Not sure how she could have managed it, she...