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Continuing to monitor temps in our shaded run as well as Coke up with fun & cheap ways to keep them cool. By far, the go to is chunks of ice placed between patio blocks. Today I got a USB powered fan and am powering it with a USB solar panel I use when I work in remote areas. This is giving...

@Looneytoonsfan Any way you could post a picture of your coop and also tell us a little about where you live? Also, are they in a run all day and just sleep in the coop or are they in the coop all the time? Free range? Any of that helps know what to recommend for you.

I assume they have a covered place to go? That seems to help a ton. Something that they seem to really like is to take two bricks or patio block and put them next to each other with a frozen block of ice in between. When I do that my hens will sit on the bricks next to the ice block to cool...

Really good. Forgot about the DIY swamp cooler. This is supposed to break tonight but I'm basically freezing anything I can find that'll hold water right now. I think they are entertained by my concern...

Update. Just over 110 in the sun, 105 in the run. Seems like they are doing fine. All are kind of sitting or huddling around these brick/ice combos.

Easily over 100 yesterday for several hours. Reading on the thermometer in the run hovered around 105-110 most of the afternoon. But they were in shade the whole day... which seems to be the big thing, shade. Also, the thermometer is about a foot below the roof and I bet the ground was a few...

I found this thread since our area is experiencing some unseasonably hot weather. It's 91 before 10 AM... that's very rare here... less than 10 days per year are like it. We designed the coop so that they'd get morning sun and their run/coop would be shaded from about 11 on. In reality, most...