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Every few years we might get lows near 10 and rarely even lower. Just this week it was tank top and shorts weather -- low 80's. It's the summers that are so unpleasant.
 
Oh no, I adore our summers! Though, this was my first summer with chickens and them being heat stressed a few times really bothered me. Not for me, but for them. 4 weeks of trading frozen water bottles in and out of the runs for the girls to snuggle up to. That I can do without. But a crazy hot day for me is just an awesome excuse to hit the lake! ;-)
 
Back2MyRoots said:
Oh no, I adore our summers! Though, this was my first summer with chickens and them being heat stressed a few times really bothered me. Not for me, but for them. 4 weeks of trading frozen water bottles in and out of the runs for the girls to snuggle up to. That I can do without. But a crazy hot day for me is just an awesome excuse to hit the lake! ;-)
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I put a mister sprinkler out for that whole month before the rain came. Betting its what saved my flock. Hot days just meant more work and more sweat for me lol
 
MarineCorpFarmr said:
I put a mister sprinkler out for that whole month before the rain came. Betting its what saved my flock. Hot days just meant more work and more sweat for me lol
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I'm curious about what type of mister. When DH and I moved several years ago, we had to leave behind a greenhouse that he had built for me, but I didn't leave behind the misting system. Does yours have several misting nozzles or one with a fan,etc.? I am considering rigging this up in my chicken run, but don't want it to create too much moisture.
 
Stumpy said:
I'm curious about what type of mister. When DH and I moved several years ago, we had to leave behind a greenhouse that he had built for me, but I didn't leave behind the misting system. Does yours have several misting nozzles or one with a fan,etc.? I am considering rigging this up in my chicken run, but don't want it to create too much moisture.
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Funny you mention the fan, The misters i was using were off a fan that was thrown to the curb. Took the hose off it and cleaned the 5 misters in clr. Worked like new. I put it on a hose timer so it was on during the hottest part of the day, but off long enough they could get dry before dark.
 
MarineCorpFarmr said:
We had single digits for a week for the low up here year before last, as well as a foot of snow. Which was awesome (ohio transplant) I was the only one on the roads and that was in my sportscar lol
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Good garden o' peas! A foot of snow is nothing and single digits not bad for a day or two. I had a broody hatch two for two in weather that went below zero. A couple of days is not big deal. One year in 06 I believe we got four feet in one day early on. The first thing I bought when we moved into the new house was a snow blower.
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I got the biggest I could afford.

I made sure I could snow blow a path to the coop before I got chickens. Only way I could have gotten to them.
 

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