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    Summer heat in Arizona

    It is 113 today and I live around Phoenix.
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    Summer heat in Arizona

    I added pictures to the original post.
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    Summer heat in Arizona

    Hello - I have 9 ladies in my flock in Arizona. In the summer they have a swamp cooler running in the hottest time of the day between 1-6 in their covered tractor run, in the chicken yard I have misters that turn on at 1pm to wet down the ground so it is cooler in the afternoon. The chicken...
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    Keeping chickens cool in the summer?

    I also use a swamp cooler that turns on at noon and off at 7pm at night as I live in Arizona and it is already hot for my 8 week only chicks.
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    4 new older pullet chickens will not roost inside the coop with the other 11 chickens at night

    good idea, didnt know they could not see at night.
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    4 new older pullet chickens will not roost inside the coop with the other 11 chickens at night

    I have two automatic feeders that hold 30 lb of food each so they can get to those when the other chickens are not around. The tractor run has two water systems and the outside large area has one. not sure I could catch them to put them in the coop at night. Thanks I will add more roosts in the...
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    4 new older pullet chickens will not roost inside the coop with the other 11 chickens at night

    received 4 pullets from a neighbor that was moving. After they were integrated into the existing flock of 11 they are still the odd 4 out and get run off from food etc. They have been inside the chicken coop and up on the roosts but at night they do not go into the coop and stay out in the big...
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