too hot

I have a metal roof on my coop. I'm trying to figure out how to keep my coop cool in the summer and warm in the winter. If I treat it with a reflective coating it won't absorb the suns heat in winter. My girls are panting at night, even with an exhaust fan going all day. Any suggestions would be...

It hit 98 degrees yesterday and today it will be even hotter. It's only May!!! We have set up misters, we have fans, we have tarps running all across the runs for shade, I give frozen fruit and vegetables, and I make sure they have cool fresh water (often with ice added) several times a day...

I locked my chickens in their coop today for the first day of coop training. It was hot and did get up to 90 degrees in the coop. (I have a temp sensor) I kept a close watch and did see about half of them panting so I got some fresh ice water and changed a few things around and that seemed to...

I moved my chicks to the garage today. They were outgrowing their inside brooder situation and also starting to get flighty. Enter the window screen brooder(see pic below). I like it, but it’s in the garage and as you can see from the thermometer(see pic below and actually just checked it, with...

So, I just got my babies this morning and I’ve been constantly adjusting the heat lamp. I’ve been told that the correct temperatures for 0-1 week is 90-95°F and to lower that temperature every week, but so far I’ve noticed that they all huddle if the temperature in under 93° and seem...

Hi everyone. I am really devastated right now. I only bought 4 and she was an easter egger bantam from MPC. She was 4 days old. When we got her, she was the most hyper, explorative one. She chirped so loud it gave me a headache sometimes. She was so hyper! Climbing everywhere. Then she just...

Hey everyone. I just got chicks today. Earlier they were moving around the brooder, napping, eating, and drinking. Not all huddled together. Now they are all huddled together (sleeping?) on the side of the brooder. They aren’t huddled under the heat nor are they huddled as far away as possible...

We’re in a heat wave and I can’t seem to get the temperature right. Are my chicks panting? I can’t tell? They are doing this strange thing... beak open, throat jiggling like they are opera singers?! Are they panting or is this some other behavior I should be concerned about?

What I need to know is, how long do my almost-8 week old chicklets need to stay "cooped up" in the halfway house we got for them before we can open the doors and let them "free range" in the little pen it's in during the day? The halfway house is actually just a little 6x8' Suncast storage shed...

This has been going on since May. For nearly two months my chickens have been dropping like flies. At first it was coccidia, but the deaths I always saw coming. Chickens were weak, super thin, and died within hours of these symptoms. But somewhere in that turmoil, something else began killing...