No professional or anything lol but I've raised a few groups of chickens and I've always just put the minerals in the water until they were old enough to put out in the yard, and I put them in the water again if one of the birds gets sick.
We had a pretty big heat wave where I live, temperatures well over 110, and my chicken yard was unprepared. My chickens had access to water and shade but just about nothing else to beat the heat (they have a mister, a pool, and a fan now lol). Anyway, one of my chickens was found lying on the...