How my chickens are staying cool today **Photos**

[Shared Acres]

Mine see ice tubs as an alternate water bowl and won't get in.

 

[ZooMummzy]

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Nope! Everyone go right ahead and steal it! It was the closest thing I could come to making a chicken cooler like another user has for her chickens. I just kept it filled all day with the fan blowing across it for that extra blast of coolness. When it all melted, it made a wonderful mud puddle bath for them and today, a wet patch of dirt with lots of bugs

 

[ZooMummzy]

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Several of mine used it for a water bowl too, but it didn't stop the more adventurous ones from getting in it, lol. Before I used the tub, I would just dump ice out on the dirt in the run. It was a contest to see how many chickens could stand on the pile, lol. The rest would stand around the outside and peck at the ice and drink the mud water

 

[Eggie and Me]

Hey ZooMummzy, they're standing in ice ???????????????

How funny that's the last thing I would have tried.................................. I have family in OR and they're reporting they HATE this heat spell....................... Hope you all stay cool

 

[ZooMummzy]

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Yep! They loved it! I never would have thought either but it worked. Heat spell is finally over up here in the north part of the valley. We didn't even hit 90 today.