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We are in Texas, heat indexes are 110 F lately and August (which is the hottest month of the year) is around the corner. Today, I put 5 frozen bottles of water in a pan and added some water. I figure that maybe some of my chickens will step for a very brief moment on the bottles to cool off...

Misters work great in dry heat but not in humid places.... I made the mistake of installing misters inside the run (I was told they would work when humidity gets below 50% and using special orifices in the misters for more humid areas) not such thing, the temp dropped but not significantly to...

I have 14 hens and my egg production went from 12 to 5 and yesterday none. 3 today so far. A lot of them are molting so that and the heat, stresses them a lot.

I wondered exactly the same thing, I discovered that the sand gets dried very fast and then they just shake it. My chicks first walked funny because they did not know what was going on, the sand dried fast and everything went back to normal. Now I dampen the sand instead of making it muddy and...

This is my second summer with my hens, last summer they were very young (three months old) and I could tell they were miserable in the South Texas heat. I have an automatic waterer which is a big pan and they liked to stand on it. This summer I added one more pan so more of them will have a...