Now it's PERSONAL! My best splash hen died this afternoon. I presume it was the heat, although I have fans blowing through the coops and frozen water bottles on the floor (which most of them avoid like the plague, go figure?) I am SO worried about the others. She was such a beauty and the mother of two beautiful pullets. I am so upset because I want to do more to keep them cool, but what?
I like the idea of the fan through the wet sheet, but doesn't it severely limit the air flow through it? Maybe if I put up something with a looser weave? I know greenhouses use osmunda fiber mats with recirculated water trickling through as a fan blows through the wet fiber. I don't know where to buy this fiber mat. Does anyone here know? I'd still have to go out there every hour and wet it unless I could rig up some way to pump and recirculate the water through it.
I bought those 'blue ice' refreezable packs today. I'll scatter them in the coops tomorrow. I don't know how long they'll last or how much cool they will provide, but I had to do SOMETHING! I just can't watch my precious babies die!!!!!
I like the idea of the fan through the wet sheet, but doesn't it severely limit the air flow through it? Maybe if I put up something with a looser weave? I know greenhouses use osmunda fiber mats with recirculated water trickling through as a fan blows through the wet fiber. I don't know where to buy this fiber mat. Does anyone here know? I'd still have to go out there every hour and wet it unless I could rig up some way to pump and recirculate the water through it.
I bought those 'blue ice' refreezable packs today. I'll scatter them in the coops tomorrow. I don't know how long they'll last or how much cool they will provide, but I had to do SOMETHING! I just can't watch my precious babies die!!!!!
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