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Fluffychicken7

Fluffychicken7

Chirping
6 Years
Nov 11, 2013
40
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Los Angeles, Ca
As it says on my bio, I live in LA and in summers, it obviously gets very hot. The past week its been near 100 degrees and my hens are getting hot. They live in part shade part sun. I've soaked, sprayed and misted them with water but nothing seems to help. every time I cool them off by getting wet, they go into the sun to dry off. Also, I've put ice packs and a bag of ice in their coop to lay on at night.
I have three questions:
First, how do I cool them off in the day time?
Second, how to I make sure they're cool at night?
And third, when I'm not home, what should I leave for them to stay cool?

It's getting hotter and hotter, please help me.
 
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Welcome to BYC!

I use fans running directly on them during the hottest parts of the day. Hose the area down, use ice in the water, feed cold treats like watermelon, cold tomatoes, cold grapes, etc...

You might want to chat with your chicken neighbors in your state thread to see how they deal with the heat...

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/565482/california-the-whole-state-thread

Good luck with the heat and I hope you can keep your birds cool!
 
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Fluffychicken7 said:
As it says on my bio, I live in LA and in summers, it obviously gets very hot. The past week its been near 100 degrees and my hens are getting hot. They live in part shade part sun. I've soaked, sprayed and misted them with water but nothing seems to help. every time I cool them off by getting wet, they go into the sun to dry off. Also, I've put ice packs and a bag of ice in their coop to lay on at night.
I have three questions:
First, how do I cool them off in the day time?
Second, how to I make sure they're cool at night?
And third, when I'm not home, what should I leave for them to stay cool?

It's getting hotter and hotter, please help me.
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Good question and let me answer you this way I live in a kind of worn spot not at all as worm as yours but it gets up to 129 for about 4 weeks a year here and I just get the ground wet and lit them lay a round and this is what they like and really never get them wet as you can loose some of your flock to sickness very fast just like people .....

A wet blanket around their cage or near them ....


Anynor about this and just ask or hit the quote button and it will say you want to talk to me ....
 
chickens generally tolerate cold much better than heat which doesn't help in your situation, unless you want to move to a colder climate.
 
Welcome to BYC
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Glad you joined us! I used to live in a semi-dessert region where the daytime temperatures reached 120+ daily. I let the hose run in my chicken run, so the hens could cool their feet down in the water and mud. They loved it!
 

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