High desert weeds!

[Seaecho]

I'm also thinking of doing fruits and veggies in ice cubes! That along with a small tub of water a couple inches deep!

 

[sevenfatcows]

I live in the high desert also, right in between the Colorado (low) desert and the Mojave. My runs are all shaded with trees, but in the heat of summer, anytime we are edging into the 104 and above range, I try to wet things down a few times a day when I am here. If I must be gone, the drip system for the trees is left on to keep at least parts of the dirt wet. Water is in large baby wading pools under the trees, and the birds like to like down all around the sides of the pools. Instead of freezing fruits and veges in water, I make a wet mash out of their fermented feed and freeze it. They pick at it all day as it melts, and I think it does really help them cope. For sitting hens, I freeze water in 2 liter plastic bottles and make sure to keep the nests cool. I learned that the hard way when a clutch of eggs was lost due to extreme heat; this was in a fully shaded part of the run, but that was just not good enough and the poor little broody was 17 days in to her hatch.
My birds also free range and will eat most of what grows in the yard, but they do avoid creeping spurge which is a toxic weed. The dandelions, filaree, mustard weed, rye grass, bermuda and just about anything else are all eaten. There are a couple of other weeds that they avoid, but I do not know the names. They do seem to have it figured out.

 

[GreySoul]

I drop snowstorm Kochia to block out all my weeds. The seeds are over 10% protine, extremely drought resistant, and its been known to stop grass fires dead in its tracks. I'm in the great basin btw....

 

[CannedMonster]

I live in the high desert near Boise.
My girls will eat dandelions, and several other weeds in my yard. They really like them.
I have many flowers in my garden that are supposed to be toxic to chickens but mine avoid them.
Clematis, iris, daffodils, hyacinth, etc.
I’m just trying to keep them from stepping all over them lol.