It's a remarkably cool summer here -- not a lot of days over 95 and not over 100 even once.
The chickens acclimate, but the electrolytes are cheap insurance. :)
I don't bother with ice, wetting the run, and that kind of thing (maybe if we were breaking 100), I just give them shade, water, the...
I give them once a week when temperatures are in the mid-90's. Which means most weeks from late May to mid-September. I actually haven't used them much this summer since it's been ridiculously coop with a couple weeks that never actually broke 90.
I just used my last little packet of Sav-A-Chick and was thinking that there had to be a more cost-effective way to give electrolytes to a flock of 20 birds than spending all that money on little packets. I own measuring spoons, I don't need someone to measure things for me in individual...