Consolidated Kansas

[sharol]

I just keep telling myself that this is one more day I don't have to worry about the hens overheating. don't have to freeze water bottles. Don't have to worry at night about the heat in the coop. Intellectually I know that this temperature is much easier on them than the heat would be.

 

[chicken danz]

I just keep telling myself that this is one more day I don't have to worry about the hens overheating. don't have to freeze water bottles. Don't have to worry at night about the heat in the coop. Intellectually I know that this temperature is much easier on them than the heat would be.

Yeah but not on me. I don't do cool and wet.

 

[sharol]

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I hear you. The older I get the less tolerant I am of extremes of any kind. Weather, politics, religion -- you name it. As my DH would say,"As I have gotten older, I suffer fools less lightly." I think that might apply to 65 degrees in July.

 

[josey8]

Ok I need help for some reason my Rhode Island red chicken's are dieing they have poop caked up on there bottom I also have barred rocks and black australoups and there fine can someone please help

 

[LavrisChica]

@Trish44

I didn't want to build anything permanent as I'm in the middle of a total coop remodel that will include a brooder. So, I just wrapped a large dog crate in mesh netting with zip ties to hold it tight. I can drape cardboard or towels over it to keep the heat in when necessary. Turned out to be a very humid day here, I'm perspiring and its steamy in the coop. UGH!

What are sweeter heaters??

 

[sharol]

@Trish44

I didn't want to build anything permanent as I'm in the middle of a total coop remodel that will include a brooder. So, I just wrapped a large dog crate in mesh netting with zip ties to hold it tight. I can drape cardboard or towels over it to keep the heat in when necessary. Turned out to be a very humid day here, I'm perspiring and its steamy in the coop. UGH!

What are sweeter heaters??

http://sweeterheater.com/bizwe

They are an enclosed panel heater that is safer than the heatlamp ones and also provide a more even heat over a larger area with fewer watts.

I have two of them I use in the winter over the high roosts and then if I have a brooder, in the spring/summer. They only heat the area directly under them, so there is less chance of creating excessive moisture buildup.

LOVE LOVE LOVE them. So do the chickens ;-)

 

[sharol]

Ok I need help for some reason my Rhode Island red chicken's are dieing they have poop caked up on there bottom I also have barred rocks and black australoups and there fine can someone please help

I had that symptom last spring when I was losing hens to egg binding. I did necropsies, so I know that was the cause. I had thought it might be gleet, but all 3 were egg bound. They were my oldest, sweetest hens, so it was devastating at the time. I think I may have not had the right kind of calcium suppliment available for them. In any case what was done was done. Lesson learned.

 

[josey8]

Well mine won't be laying till September there still to young

 

[sharol]

Well mine won't be laying till September there still to young

How old are they?

 

[josey8]

6 months