“Like us, the animals are exhausted”: farm animals suffocate in the heat

Protect the beasts! They thought only of that all day, Monday, July 18. In the farms, this mercury, which never ceases to reach 40°C, is beginning to weigh heavily on nerves and morale. “Since this new heatwave episode started, my poultry have lost their appetite, they eat half as much as usual. Like us, they are exhausted, ”laments Quentin Hinard, a young breeder of free-range chickens in Coutances (Manche) who goes out of his way to keep his livestock in shape.