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Water for them to stand in is the easiest way to cool them off. When the heat gets serious here, I build them little cinder-block houses and trickle water over them with a hose. Water soaks into the brick, and when the breeze blows, it evaporates and cools the inside of the "house". It...

I built a sort of box out of cinder blocks with a roof over it and ran a mister on it. The water soaked into the bricks, then as it evaporated, it cooled the inside of the box giving the chickens a sort of air conditioning to retreat to when the heat got too much. Even though our temps topped...