Hot Today. What treats did you give your chickens.

[CarolJ]

I've got a couple of those little wire cages that hold suet blocks for birds. I fill them with watermelon, cherries, spinach - whatever fruit and veggies I have that are too old/ripe for us. Then I put the cages in the freezer. Each day I hang one in the chicken run. They love it. They love frozen peaches, too.

 

[kinsey228]

I gave mine strawberries from the fridge, and frozen blackberries. Oh, how they LOVED them !

 

[bertman]

When I went out at 1:15 p.m. to give them their treat they were all lying in the sand napping (the run is under some big oaks and very shady). As soon as I came in they wanted to get out and free range but I just set the watermelon slices on the ground and they all RAN OVER and started CHOWING DOWN.

It's at least 98 here in central North Carolina. Stifling heat but a nice (hot) breeze.

They love cantalope and cantalope seeds.

 

[kimntep]

Ice cold Apple Sauce with chopped cold grapes! They loved it!

 

[nurse_turtle]

I made some raspberry and some blueberry jelly yesterday and the leftover pulp has been frozen in ice cube trays and delivered to the very receptive feathered omnivores! Needless to say, they were so busy eating they didn't even say thank you. Ingrates.

 

[edible_chicken]

the easiest and cost free way to keep your chickies cool is to dig a foot deep (or deeper) trench into the ground, underneath a big shady tree. your chickens will learn (or with help) to sit in it to keep cool. soil that deep is at least 20 or more degrees cooler than above ground. my buff opringtons always sit in their trench whens its hot and they hardly ever pant or show other signs of being hot while sitting in it.

 

[ryanhodapp]

lots of good ideas here. Mine dont like to get wet, but they will stand in the bird bath. It is a lower one, probably 18 inches off the ground. I freeze a milk jug and set that in there too so it is a little cooler.

When it is winter and twenty degrees and I am worried about thAT, I am going to remember Summer, ugh

 

[redsoxs]

Two BLT's. No wait, I ate those! For them it was partially frozen bananas!!

 

[Country Heart]

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[Barry Natchitoches]

I get free watermelon from a local melon farmer. They are melons that are less than perfect, with a rotten spot or split or broken or whatever. He can't sell them, so I trade a dozen farm fresh eggs a week for his un-saleable melons.


That allows my feathered kids to have watermelon everyday during the summer. Oh, I have to cut off bad parts, but that usually leaves plenty of good melon for them to eat.


Today, for the first time, I even gave some melon (after I cleaned the seeds out of it) to my three week old muscovy ducks.


The feathered kids LOVE watermelon!