cooling off your chickens

[Molly Mojo]

Once I get my enclosure all set up I can do this. I can't crawl in now with the tractor they are in.

Maybe get a few small bottles that you can set where you can reach.

For my little ones still in brooder (3week) I fill a small bowl (w lid) with ice and they lay around it too.

 

[Lilokieescorter]

Frozen water bottles. I rotate them out a few times a day. Even if they aren’t completely frozen, they are cold for them. View attachment 2246742

Neat idea

 

[Flockincrazy]

Welp, I tried Kale, but no.

Try the frozen kale or spinich thawed

 

[sayccrn]

Maybe get a few small bottles that you can set where you can reach.

For my little ones still in brooder (3week) I fill a small bowl (w lid) with ice and they lay around it too.

Well. My freezer sucks for one, no more room, it's filled up with watermelon rind, cubes, frozen cucs and corn. That area is pretty filled up already, their wster, the pan of water, the grit, the food, the frozen stuff. It is what it is. Hopefully my enclosure will ship sooner rather than later.

 

[sayccrn]

Try the frozen kale or spinich thawed

Today it thaws up the minute I put it out! I ran out today, anyway.

 

[amenfarm]

Always remember that chicken heat and cool with the day. If you give them something that lowers their body temp...then it shoots back up- it will cause problems. Give cool water, deep shade--as much as you can, you can water their feed, shallow pans with a bricks to walk across
to cool, and waterers deep enough they can get the wattles and combs wet--mine head for the dogs water bowls.. We do have a coop fan.

 

[sayccrn]

Ok...so, are you saying that icing their water bowl and giving them watermelon icecubes is not a good thing every hour? They do have a fan and I spray the ground by the fan so it also mists them. Should i be doing something else?

 

[nakitaj11]

I haven't tried watermelon yet. But I have corn, and they look at it like it's monster. I also heard corn is not good when it's hot, that it increases their temp? Not sure, just saying what I read somewhere.

I think that was cracked corn??? I would think the fresh would be different. but the cracked corn is good when it is colder outside since it raises their body temp.

 

[sayccrn]

I think that was cracked corn??? I would think the fresh would be different. but the cracked corn is good when it is colder outside since it raises their body temp.

I have no idea. Corn is corn? No? IDK!

 

[WaterWindStone]

I love to see their feathers blowing in the wind!

I have a photo somewhere, let me see it I can find it.