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Glad to hear they are keeping cool. Welcome back :)

I have an EE that will stay in the pool nearly all day. I have started rinsing the sand and changing the water in the pool once a week. Twice if I have time. They started drinking out of it and sometimes eating the sand. Figured I ought to make it cleaner. They have clean waterers, free choice...

That's great! Lolololol

X2... Exellent advice!

@perchie.girl That sounds like an awesome way to set it up. Wish I could afford to do it. Right now we have a 4 gal waterer from the feed store. It has trough area all the way around. I fill it then once a day i dump whats in the trough part to wash away any debri and it refills from the...

Grandpa used to keep goldfish in the water troughs. I had totally forgotten about that. Too bad I only use 1 gal and 4 gal waterers for the birds lol. I do use acv with mother but honestly can't say if its doing anything beneficial.

I couldn't get that to work either (#myphonehatesme) but did a search. That's crazy! Desperate times=desperate measures, I guess. @perchie.girl pingpong balls in the waterer make sense. I've heard that slows freezing in winter too. Wish I knew how to keep it from getting slimy in 2 days time...

I tried the link. Nothing about "shade balls". What the heck are they?

Great ideas!

Lol I appreciate any help I can get. The new girls aren't going to be real high in pecking order since they don't do too much to defend themselves either. The way I see it, tho is someone has to be on the bottom and that's ok. As long as no one is getting hurt... So far the girls aren't being...

Technically no, I'm trying to find at least a couple more bantam pullets or hens. I had my eye on some but after I made an appt. To pick them up, they gave them to someone else before I got there. People are rude sometimes. (The lady picked the day and time, I didn't) There are 11 girls right...

I don't mind a bit! I'm hear to learn:) I will give that a try. Right now I am feeding and watering the 3 new kids in the coop. They avoid going out in the run. They are all such sweethearts they just avoid everyone else when they can. If I want them to get any sunshine I have to cage the lil...

Have been trying to post pics of the newbs. Can't get them to upload. The lil roo I already had isn't playing nice. The new guy doesn't defend himself. I know I should let them be and work it out but I end up protecting him. He has been bullied before and has tons of broken and missing feathers...

I will try to get pics in the next couple of days:) I think they are about 2 yrs old

Hey all! I brought the araucaunas home yesterday! They need some tlc but seem to be very sweet birds:)

It hasn't been too awful this year here but if I can provide them relief I will. Several days of temp+humidity making it feel over 100 is enough to look for solutions.

I think some chickens are smarter than we give them credit for. When they find a way to cool off they want to do it.

I've seen a few threads on here where long time chicken folks kind of put down newbs for suggesting a pool. Chickens hate water, they aren't ducks, blah, blah, blah. Well, I reckon I got a flock of water-loving chickenducks. So there! :cool: and I wouldn't want them any different:)

The sand is definitly important. They don't seem to like the slick bottom. Today wasn't as hot and they still spent a good part of the day in there.

Hubby and neighbors already think I'm nuts. Lets not give them any more proof. They'll have me committed!