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Hi! Its day 19 of our eggs under a broody serama. Most of the eggs have pips :). But, the mother didn't eat or drink today (perhaps because of the chicks starting to hatch she went quickly back to the nest after pooping) and I am worried because the weather is pretty hot today. I offered her...

It gets pretty hot and humid here in the summer and Winters are a mixed bag these days.

...a good size broody, healthy Sussex. She has her own cage and run and it’s in a shady spot most of the day. Australia has had some very hot weather here; up to 39 or 40 degrees.celcius. Looks like my spoiled hand-fed hen and eggs survived. They are hatching 2 days early- judging by this one...

Hello, I've read that its good to add Asprin to chickens water when its hot out. Well, here in Indiana, the temps are going from a comfortable 72° last week to 100° this week. Does Asprin help? If so, how? Thanks!

It’s been super hot and dry where we are in south Louisiana. I’ve been giving my girls a tray of frozen fruit and whatever leftover protein from dinner to help cool them off. The problem is now they are not eating their chicken feed at all. Should I stop giving them frozen treats until they...

Hi all, Need some help/advice here. It has been super hot and humid in the north east 90+ several days for several weeks now. Is this normal? I read about intestinal shedding? Anything I can do? This is a flock of nine hens and just effecting the three. Please let me know your thoughts 1)...

Hi! I'm moving to Southern Missouri and I'm wondering what breeds to raise, do I look for cold hardy or heat hardy chickens? I love Orpingtons, Wyandottes, Ameraucaunas, Speckled Sussex, but am wondering if they fit best further North? Thanks!

We live in deep east Texas and it is barely summer and already reaching triple digits!!! We have started wetting the ground the coop and are going to start putting frozen water bottles in their water to keep it cool but we were wondering what else could help to keep them cool??

Here in south east Texas the temperatures can get well above 100 degrees sometimes in the Summer. I do my best to break the pinnacle of the day heat by bringing my chickies pans of cold fruit, and replacing the inner water bottles I place into their main water bucket with frozen bottles. I also...

Today it’s 97 F in Texas. Recently, two of my girls (both of which have always had naturally just a bit runnier poops) are getting small buildups of poop around their vents. I have three pullet ameraucanas and one 3 year old EE. Two of my ameraucanas have perfectly clean vents but the EE has...

I’m sorry if this has been answered already. I’m in Arizona and temperature’s are up around 100° already and it’s only May! How long can an egg be left outside in this heat? 1 hour? 3 hours? 5 hours Thank You

...and we are all feeling the heat...especially my pullets and cockerels. To cool things off and let my babies have a treat I whip up a hot weather mash. It isn't anything more than crumbles and scratch and very cold water with several ice cubes to keep it cool. My Chickies LOVE it! Also they...

Hi y'all I'm a life time farmer rancher just retired to the Sonoran desert from the opposite climate miss having hens looking for contenders I'm still having to pack water for my garden other pets and personal use so would need to take that into consideration also sand is the only ground I have...

I have an 8 month old black Bantam Silkie. I have 6 hens but this is the first to go full on broody. She won't leave her 1 little egg. She is all puffed up and making crazy sounds. It's scary to see this change in behavior (for me as a semi new chicken mama). I walk them a few times a day so I...

Hey guys, I was told a year back that hatch rate drops significantly during the Summer/Hot months. I've been getting 80% hatch rates when I incubate in the cooler months but my most recent hatch this Summer (first time doing so in hot days) has only been about 60-65%. Has this been your...

Hi, newcomer to the forums. Read a lot but never posted! Preface: I live in a very hot climate, it's winter now and it's ~25C. Midday summer (especially July-August) it easily goes up to 45C. I intend to keep 10 chickens in this coop, and will build an attached run for it after I finish setting...

This is something I've often wondered about. Assuming you live in a tropical climate or even just somewhere where it happens to be warm (let's say like 75 to 90 degrees fahrenheit range), and you have no refrigerator, what do you do with meat? presumably most of it would be slaughtered or...

Just wondering if hens occasionally take a break for no reason of if hot weather slows them down. I have some quail hens that were laying regularly and then we got this heat alert for the week. I went outside to collect eggs and for two days I found one instead of 6 or 10. I just basically...

So other night we grabbed our eggs put them in our metal water bucket and my wife likes to let the eggs sit in water before cleaning makes it easier... Well she forgot about them so they sat out all of the next day and it was 85 degrees out or more didn't know if I should just pitch the eggs or...

we just picked up our baby chicks from the post office yesterday morning. we are keeping them in our sunroom which varies a few degrees from the weather outside. we live in vancouver, wa and the weather here has been high 90’s with a low of 60° at night. now i know to keep the heat lamp on for...