Desert Chickens, Anyone?

[Three Little Bunnies]

Here’s a place for folks who live in the desert to chat. I know it can be difficult to know what to do with the flock when it’s very hot outside, so here we can give and get advice.

I have fifteen pullets, all under a year old. Two are eighteen weeks, the rest are ten months. I live is Southern NM.

 

[Estella1235]

If it gets really hot you could hang up a mister.

 

[TwoCrows]

Here’s a place for folks who live in the desert to chat. I know it can be difficult to know what to do with the flock when it’s very hot outside, so here we can give and get advice.

I have fifteen pullets, all under a year old. Two are eighteen weeks, the rest are ten months. I live is Southern NM.

South Central Mountains of New Mexico! Not too awful hot up here, bad enough for me! Where in southern NM are you?

 

[Three Little Bunnies]

South Central Mountains of New Mexico! Not too awful hot up here, bad enough for me! Where in southern NM are you?

About three hours from Abq, and an hour from Cruces.

 

[TwoCrows]

About three hours from Abq, and an hour from Cruces.

It was about 80 up here today, how hot did you get today?

 

[Three Little Bunnies]

It’s still 92. And it is 7:46. Apparently we are expecting another week of ninety to a hundred.

 

[TwoCrows]

It’s still 92. And it is 7:46. Apparently we are expecting another week of ninety to a hundred.

HOLY CROW that's hot! I shouldn't complain at 80 degrees. Are your birds ok, other pets?

 

[Three Little Bunnies]

HOLY CROW that's hot! I shouldn't complain at 80 degrees. Are your birds ok, other pets?

The birds are as well as can be expected. My two youngest laid their first eggs today and yesterday! My other pets are rabbits who live outside in a hutch with a swamp cooler. We call it the Bunny Mansion.

 

[TwoCrows]

The birds are as well as can be expected. My two youngest laid their first eggs today and yesterday! My other pets are rabbits who live outside in a hutch with a swamp cooler. We call it the Bunny Mansion.

Glad you are surviving out there. We've got some clouds now, blocking out that blazing sun!

Congrats on those first eggs! Sounds like the rabbits have a haven out there. Stay cool!

 

[Three Little Bunnies]

Glad you are surviving out there. We've got some clouds now, blocking out that blazing sun!

Congrats on those first eggs! Sounds like the rabbits have a haven out there. Stay cool!

Thanks! I am really hoping for some more rain or at least cloud cover, but I don’t think it’s in the forecast.