How Do You Cool Off Your Chickens? (112 degrees in Southern NM!)

[buck-wild-chick]

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[Mahonri]

I put an AC unit in my coop.

 

[cmom]

I worry about the heat too. I have my coop in the shade as well as the birds run covered for shade and also keeps the run drier when it rains, which is most every day. When the rains stop and the sun comes out the humidity sky rockets. I have some trees in their yard. I set up a sprinkler for them in their yard and put chunk ice into their water.

 

[elmo]

You can put pans or saucers of water in the shade for the chickens to stand in. This really helps to cool them down.

 

[Billy7871]

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I do not and am not making fun of anybody but an ac unit in a chicken coop........ Come on... God made them animals. They live outside. Do they stay in the coop by choice or do they go outside?
Billy

 

[2txmedics]

I grab the hose and hold it up facing the sky...and let it come down like rain....I drench them in water....and wet the run inside....but I got to think, that maybe Im hurting them more by doing this...that it would make it humid???

I even go as far as going into the coop with a hoe and I turn the dirt over and over where they sit and do there dust baths...when i do this, they run to it. Like kids running into beach water.

I spray them down with the hose about 2-3times a day.

 

[Lucky Ducky]

Mahroni lives in Arizona where it is hot as Hades. AC is a necessity for people to live. His chickens were too hot and if I am not mistaken, he lost a couple to the heat. He did what he had to do in order for them to live. I live in NM and I've given it some serious thought.

 

[TerriLaChicks]

Putting frozen bottle of ice water into shallow pans w/about an inch of water twice a day--they like to get in it, drink it, i put frozen veggies in there to entice them. We also put up sun shade cloth (Walmart has it) over the run area. I freeze watermelon rind & veggies to pass out a couple times a day (noon & afternoon).

I tried hosing down the run but I thought it just made the humidity that much worse. I let the grass grow up & they are hiding in the taller grass & it seems to be keeping them cooler, so I'm not cutting it for now.

 

[mdbokc]

I sat with a fellow from AZ who worked at a juvinile detention facility where they raise a good portion of the food they eat, including chickens. They use misters and he claimed they never lose chickens due to heat with the misters. I decided to place thermometers to measure the area where my girls prefer to spend their time when the misters are on. I measure temperatures from 74 - 80 degrees...and we are over 100 degrees officially (confirmed by my thermometers elswhere). They are not even panting.

 

[mdbokc]

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