HOT WEATHER, COLD HARDY CHICKENS!

[oldhenlikesdogs]

I have a quick quistion... My chicken hatched 9 eggs they have there food and water and pretty good temputure but 1 chick is really small compared to the others he keeps getting thrown when the mom scrapes the floor and sometimes he gets thrown and bearly can get up the 1st time i saw them they all looked great today he was smaller weaker i made him a lil box but it keeps chirping it wont go to sleep unless i hold it should i give it a buddy please help

I might return him to his mom, if it dies and you pulled another chick for company than you have a single chick that the hen may not take back. It should learn to stay out of the way of the mom hen.

 

[Kevin padron]

I might return him to his mom, if it dies and you pulled another chick for company than you have a single chick that the hen may not take back. It should learn to stay out of the way of the mom hen.

But its kinda of a life or death situation you know ill dought it die if it has heat water and food and it can stay more calm if its has a brother or sister with it

 

[Kevin padron]

Its a like i dont know what it is can yah please tell me is it its cord poop should i take it out

 

[Kevin padron]

Its a like i dont know what it is can yah please tell me is it its cord poop should i take it out

 

[meetthebubus]

As far as wet ground goes, it helps chickens, they cool off through their feet my girls will stand in cool water puddles and that helps them, then they'll go to the ground where the misters were running and bathe with the wet-ish dirt just don't let it get too wet for too long or else algae happens, etc.

 

[Coturnix Quail]

Are there any cold fruits I can feed them? Here's a tip that I found my chicks like: if your whole coop isn't sand like mine, (I just put them outside so they still have grass) I have a little tray with sand, and every now and then I mix food into the sand and they just love scratching around eating their food in the sand! They also like it if you spread it across the floor but I assume that gets messy easily when they grow up.

 

[lynnd17]

It's been really hot in my neck of the woods too, Illinois. I did put a fan in the coop and I'm doing frozen bottles of water. They really like laying against it. I also put a dog cooling mat in a pillow case and through it in the coop.
I'm also putting electrolytes in their water along with ice.
So far so good. They are only 3 months old and we went from spring to super hot.

 

[FlyingNunFarm]

I've given them frozen apple halves. Or made smoothies with yogurt and strawberry tops. Mine all love anything with seeds. They don't go for green and leafy. LOL I always save them watermelon and other melon rinds. You can freeze those if you have the room. I once took half a cantaloupe and scooped the good parts out. Then put the seeds from the cantaloupe some strawberry tops and a few apple chunks back in the rind. Topped it off with a little water and put it in the freezer. It got really hot one day and I brought it out. They waited till it softened up a little and devoured it!