anybody use granite scraps to help cool their chickens?

[ladyearth]

I got Hubby a book years ago on radiant floor heating.....
He just told me today a story or whatever the author told about supposedly slaves would pull large slabs of granite into the desert every day and leave overnite. then next morning pull back out to supposely keep King cooler by his throne....I guess Egypt....
Dang we were at granite fabricators and sell yard few weeks back. Priced it for us. expensive but I dont like how thick and heavy it is for the old decrepit money pit house. Dang wish he told me story earlier would have asked for the cheapest scraps to buy to place in shade or wherever for my featherd babies. they are so hot.
I feel for them...
I give plenty of shade and places to go and wtr. and electolyts,ice, vitamins etc... even small fans in their hot coops with windows open etc....in this terrible humid hot spell
so anytone else try?

 

[IceAngel]

Large masses take longer to heat up and longer to cool off. Slave labour was cheap in those days, all the King had to do was keep them alive. Lugging large pieces of stone in and out of the coop seems like a lot of work.

How about freezing slabs of ice in your deep freeze and burying them under wood shavings in the coop? Before there was refrigeration pioneers cut ice blocks in the winter and preserved them through to summer buried in sawdust.