Cloversnatcher
In the Brooder
My husband and I were gifted 10, week-old Andalusian Blues in April of 2017. I have been coming to this site periodically to find answers to my questions and have found it very helpful reading the threads. These are my first ever chickens, so I have had LOTS of questions! But now, I have a specific situation to ask advice on, so I thought it about time to join the community, so, Hi Y'all!
We live in North Georgia and the weather is getting hotter with every passing day, yesterday it was 100F and my late laying hen was in her nesting box in the worst of the heat... our nesting boxes are plastic bins turned upside down with a big hole cut into it, they have worked well thus far, but yesterday, I could see she was stressing in the heat. I installed a small fan toward the rafters, blowing indirectly to where the nesting boxes are, put ice in their waterer and cut up some cold cucumbers for them. She seemed fine after she laid her egg, but this morning I found her dead.
Today, I started earlier with the ice water, adding ice packs in front of the fan, and I took a hose to the tin roof of the coop and left it misting up there, I have managed to get the internal temp of the coop down to 90F. Two girls today have tried to lay, but nothing, the boxes are too hot even still. I have removed 80% of the pine shavings from the coop, and wet the dirt down in the adjacent run.
What else can I do?
We live in North Georgia and the weather is getting hotter with every passing day, yesterday it was 100F and my late laying hen was in her nesting box in the worst of the heat... our nesting boxes are plastic bins turned upside down with a big hole cut into it, they have worked well thus far, but yesterday, I could see she was stressing in the heat. I installed a small fan toward the rafters, blowing indirectly to where the nesting boxes are, put ice in their waterer and cut up some cold cucumbers for them. She seemed fine after she laid her egg, but this morning I found her dead.
Today, I started earlier with the ice water, adding ice packs in front of the fan, and I took a hose to the tin roof of the coop and left it misting up there, I have managed to get the internal temp of the coop down to 90F. Two girls today have tried to lay, but nothing, the boxes are too hot even still. I have removed 80% of the pine shavings from the coop, and wet the dirt down in the adjacent run.
What else can I do?
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and welcome to BYC! 
