Chickens can't sweat - in order to bleed excess heat, they have very few strategies. Open mouthed breathing. Holding their wings away from the body to provide more surface area for cooling. Dig into the soil - preferably in a shaded area - and bed down (the earth is a few degrees cooler than...
I have some brahma as well - or did until the red shoulder hawk got the last of them. The WYan did better in the heat than they did.
I was going to cold smoke some salmon today, realized it was so hot I can't actually use the smoker component, so will be hot smoking instead...
HELLO NORTH FLORIDA! (from the Wiregrass/Panhandle)
My Wyans do about as well as my other birds in this heat. Could they do better??? Yes - a more prominent comb would definitely help. But plenty of shade, plenty of ventilation, plenty of fresh clean water and they will do just fine. My...