Sounds like you're my neighbor! I'm in Southern California and we're looking at Temps up to 110 in the Inland Empire this holiday weekend :-(
I've got my girls in my tiled dining room for the week. (First time in the house) I taped plastic to the floor then covered that with news paper. Hung...
Cross. I got my first pair last year when my flock went out to the coop to live. I bought the ones that look like 300 birds popped on them! (Colorful, COMFY! -- and totally appropriate rainbow "poopy-looking" camouflage for heading out to the coop twice a day! )
I had a plastic shed in my backyard and I built an interior frame to make my coop. We built an outside run and completely enclosed it with hardware cloth. Between the wood and the hardware cloth and an existing shed we spent $2,800! Ridiculous. I have six chickens. LOL
Good morning Peeps! =)
I have a new flock of 9 babies (ok: they're probably teens at this point, as their feathers have been in, they're outside in the coop that hubby built, and they're starting to come when I call them -- in anticipation of leafy greens, fresh corn & dried worms)
I'm...