Who here is dealing with extreme heat at the moment?

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Nicole01

Nicole01

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Mar 28, 2011
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Oy! Today takes the cake for high temp and humidity. I'm in MN and it is hot, hot, hot! For the last week it has not cooled down a bit. I find myself dunking in cool water 2-4 times a day. I dunked this morning at 8am due to the heat and cranky chickens! It's suppose to break tomorrow night. I don't know if my flock can handle it. With in 15 minutes of dunking they were dry.:/

Luckily my girls free range under shady trees. I have a hose running cool water for them to walk through. They seem to take their turns. Tonight, I just might kick them out of the coop and keep them in the run. I have it double secured with welded wire and hardware cloth. I'm not worried about any predator getting in.

Who else has high temps they are dealing with?
 
it's hot here too and it's my first summer w/chickens. Texas is always hot in the summer, but i've not had to worry about chickens before. during the day they do fine. their biggest risk is when they first go in the coop at night. it's hot in there even with the fans running. so far no losses.
i'm a little concerned about one going broody and wanting to stay in the coop during the day. i can't let them do that. it would be a death sentence.
 
It's 99 right now, and we are under a warning for temps up to 105-110 all the way through Saturday. This isn't typical in Michigan, though 90s aren't rare.

Although we have a fan in the coop, it easily pushes 100+ in there in the summer months on really hot days, so I booted everyone outside and locked them out of the coop (because they all end to hide out in there otherwise). We have several lean-tos in the run that they hang out under when it's hot and sunny (I have Black Copper Marans, and their dark feathers really soak up the sunlight!). Once an hour or so, I turn on the hose and mist everyone. They don't like getting wet, but they stop panting once their bodies are cooled off (so they get over it).

We have two ducks that share the barn and run with the chickens. They have a swimming pool that we keep filled with fresh, cold water.
 
It's been near 100 here for a couple weeks. I hose down the sand in the run occasionally to induce evaporation which lowers the temperature a good ten degrees. I also freeze water in large yogurt cartons and put them in the waterers to ice their drinking water which has vitamins and electrolytes.

They have a fan going at night in the coop, and I might suggest that, if you have the room, adding a towel soaked in water and hung just in front of the fan would cool the coop down quite a bit more than the fan alone.
 

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