All Set For Another Scorcher Here Today

[DerbyChook]

It's miserable, isn't it! I have been putting frozen soda bottles in the run for awhile now, but yesterday I broke down and found a long extension cord and hauled a fan out to the run as well. Prayed it didn't rain while I was out, since I don't have any cover for the fan! I put it outside the run to avoid chicken electrocution just in case we did get a surprise shower.

 

[Tara Rose]

Wow that hot in Virginia? I am traveling North soon and I was hoping when I got that far it would be cooler. I am traveling with peeps, (I mean that literally I am not a rapper). Any way I do the ice water thing and I freeze soda bottles filled with water and put in the hut. During the heat of the afternoon they all lay around it. And then I use the melted water to fill their water containers at night, refill and put back in the freezer. My son calls it Hillbilly Chicken Air-conditioning. I also have shade cloth I got at walmart, I have a square over head and down on one side, so that it blocks the sun at different times. I love the watermelon idea and will have to try, it provide a cool area to be around and a snack rolled into one. Brilliant thanks

 

[Catstar68]

101 with a heat index of 107....ugh. My cats were all on the porch yesterday, melted into little kitty-puddles under the chairs, unable or perhaps unwilling to move out of the shade and off the cool concrete. The chickens seem to be fine though. They are under the oak trees in the shade. They like to scratch out holes in the dirt and sleep in them to keep cool. The chicken house is HOT though. I may have to break down and hhook up the fan so my broody does not cook in there. She insists on sitting in the nest box even though I take her eggs and toss her out every chance I get!

Hey, Neighbor Price! Want some EE roos? I'm thinking I have at least 3 out of my last broody's hatch of 7. Six weeks old right now, free for the asking once I'm sure they are roos. Let me know.

 

[Keene's coop]

only 80 here in wisconsin. 70's the rest of the week

 

[Zahboo]

105 with the heat index today. I'm hoping what they say is true, in the 80s next week. My birds are suffering in this heat.

 

[Morgan7782]

Sacramento's day is cooler today, only about 87 or so. I have been thinking of getting a mister though.. Our summers get about 112/113 at night and I saw it 118 last summer in the evening. Right now the girls have plenty of shade (run is nearly all shade) and fresh water, plus we have a hose going slightly at any given time of the day. The chickens LOVE the hose and walk through the puddles and love drinking from water coming out of the hose. Of course anytime I move the hose both girls and running and yelling thinking it is a snake or something lol.

 

[dtchick]

We're supposed to hit 108 here in Tucson. I've been putting ice blocks in the run and have the whole thing covered in shade cloth, which I spray down a couple times a day. At least it's dry enough here that when I get the shade cloth wet it gives them an evaporative cooling effect and doesn't just turn to steam! They've been holing up in the shade under the coop and running out for mudbaths when I get it all wet.

 

[suebee]

Yes today will be the hottest day here in NC. I hope my older chickens make it. They all free range and find breezy, shady spots. Worried about broodies in the coop. I've got frozen water bottles ready. Don't even want to know what August will be like.

Wish I lived near "Keene's Coop" in Wisconsin right now....

 

[PriceFamilyFarms]

I got the misters I have from Amazon. I bought 18 of them total to put in the runs I have attached to the breeding pens and 3 of them in the side yard where my personal flock likes to hang out. The shipping was very quick. I had them in 3 days. In one box there were 50 nozzles and in most of the others there were 20. It's only supposed to come with 10. They were not difficult to install either and they really do work pretty good.

Here is the link for the ones that I bought:
http://www.amazon.com/Evaporative-M...3?ie=UTF8&s=home-garden&qid=1277389017&sr=8-3

Another note on the installation...we are on a water well here and the well that serves that part of the property has grit or sand in the water sometimes so I also went to Lowe's and picked up some of those little screened washers they put inside washing machines hoses to keep the misters from getting clogged.

 

[Catstar68]

Keene's coop :

only 80 here in wisconsin. 70's the rest of the week

Remind me, in January, to torment you with our weather report....