California - Northern

[Stephine]

This is great! We've been at 110-111 degrees here and pretty much tarped the gated area to block most of the sun
I have a side nipple bucket for water so I threw in a few pre frozen bottles of water to make their water cold - then I literally watered down and area in the gated area around their coop. It created a small pond they drank out of until it soaked into the ground
Once that happened they dug up the moist dirt and rolled around and sat in it

Thanks for the tips btw

You're welcome!
In this extreme heat it is a good idea to supplement your regular nipple waterers with open dishes. Especially the horizontal nipples are bot easy to drink from and when the chickens are panting it can make it tricky to drink from at all. Also they need a lot more water than usual and that is much easier to do from a dish. Finally, with an open dish they can dunk their wattles when drinking which is cooling as well...

 

[Bhapimama]

We are having a heatwave here in "True Northern" California. It hit 100 today. Normally we're lucky if it gets to 75 in the summer here on the coast. I found a way to cool off though.... parked my lounge chair under the apple tree and turned on the sprinkler. The girls are lovin it too

 

[Bhapimama]

I had a cute video .... Only 12 secs long ... But apparently "too large" :-/

 

[ronott1]

I had a cute video .... Only 12 secs long ... But apparently "too large" :-/

I post them to vimeo and then post them here as a vimeo movie. You can us you tube too

 

[AmyPaperlady]

Hot up here in Crescent City today, too, but too smokey to open anything now that's it's cooled down outside. All the fans are going, but it's still warmer inside than outside.

 

[Stephine]

Hot up here in Crescent City today, too, but too smokey to open anything now that's it's cooled down outside. All the fans are going, but it's still warmer inside than outside.

Ughh, I know, the combination of smoke and heat has been abysmal. Even down here near Sonoma we were completely smoked in on Friday and Saturday, with heat going up to 112 on Fri and 110 yesterday. It really was like an oven, the air just burning on the skin.
Last night the blue sky finally came back through - so much better today even with it still being over 100....

 

[ronott1]

Ughh, I know, the combination of smoke and hest has been abysmal. Even down here near Sonoma we were completely smoked in on Friday and Saturday, with heat going up to 112 on Fri and 110 yesterday. It really was like an oven, the air just burning on the skin.
Last night the blue sky finally came back through - so much better today even with it still being over 100....

It is very bad in Woodland today. The smoke seems worse than yesterday for us

 

[Stephine]

It is very bad in Woodland today. The smoke seems worse than yesterday for us

 

[redranger209]

I'm still looking for a true amerucauna roo to breed. No one replied to that comment on like a week so... I live in Oakdale.

 

[redranger209]

Ughh, I know, the combination of smoke and heat has been abysmal. Even down here near Sonoma we were completely smoked in on Friday and Saturday, with heat going up to 112 on Fri and 110 yesterday. It really was like an oven, the air just burning on the skin.
Last night the blue sky finally came back through - so much better today even with it still being over 100....

Ikr. I was at lake McClure and it was terrible.