Thanks so much for the additional advice. I like the ease of the plant pot saucers filled with water. I tried the frozen bottle of water and my girls totally ignored it. I already covered the top of the run with a tarp to provide extra shade and the dripping bucket of water into the run...
I have just read the advice on cooling chickens in hot weather. Today, in Kentucky, they are all panting. It is around 87 degrees. It isn't even the hot part of the summer yet. I am worried about them. I am a new chicken mother. I just went out and tried misting them. They do not want...