My Reply : I don't know if a chicken could recover from a bee sting that quickly but I can believe that such a strong reaction as that could be down to a bee sting as I have seen my own chickens seem a bit worried when they have seen a bee (or bee-like insect, I couldn't quite see what it was exactly) nearby and that seemed to be their natural instinct kicking in. From what I can gather though bees generally won't sting unless they feel threatened because if they do they die so the risk of chickens being stung is very minimal even when bees are being kept with or near chickens, but there are certain types of bees that can become very aggressive for one reason or another ('africanized bees' seems to be what to watch out for in particular) and will attack chickens (and people) and it has been known for a chicken to die from that. Whatever it was though, I'm glad she recovered so quickly. -- Has anyone else experienced something similar?