It's 107 today....

[saddina]

And the quail should be hatching Tues/Wens, beyond the very obvious "no heat lamp" is there anything I should worry about? My bedroom is a dry 90ish (the celing fan tracks temp and humidity for the room).

 

[Mahonri]

That's a warm bedroom.

Hit 110 here today and no rain in sight.

 

[saddina]

I know, the bloody swamp cooler died 2 days ago, and the house AC can only do so much solo.

 

[TexasVet]

Hit 101 here in Brenham Texas today; was 103 yesterday. I've lost count of the heat records we've broken this month. We got 9 inches of rain in one day in May, but not a drop since. Keeping my fingers crossed tomorrow, because we've got a 30% chance of percipitation.

Lost my first hen to heat stroke yesterday, in spite of ice in the drinking water, shade cloth, hosing down the run, and installing a mister.

Kathy, Bellville TX
www.CountryChickens.com, www.PivotalForce.com

 

[Mahonri]

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Lost my first to heat stroke also yesterday... a RIR. Looks like they survived today.

At some point in time I'm putting insulation up under the roof. It was just brutal today and I wet the roof down and all it would do is just evaporate as quickly as I put it there... HOT roof, HOT coop.

 

[shelleyd2008]

I don't know how your temps go, but here in crazy KY the nighttime temps are always at least 20 degrees cooler than the daytime temps, usually more like 30 degrees. So you might want to set up your 'brooder' for a few days with one of those thermometers that shows the high and low temp for the day? That way you'll know if you need to have heat on them at night. Remember, quail chicks need to have temps at least 95% for the first week, but mine have seemed to do better if the temps were more like 98. This way they don't pile up and squish the weaker ones. Other than that you'll be all right I think

 

[saddina]

Yeah was thinking night only, the house is facing west, and has huge picture windows that face the afternoon sun.

 

[PurpleChicken]

What temp is the house with the AC on? I don't care about the
quail, I care about the people.

I can't handle sleeping in anything over 70. My AC is on 67 right
now. It's 75 and a little humid out.

 

[shelleyd2008]

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Um....BRRRR!! OMG, I gripe if my dad turns the A/C any lower than 77, that is even too cold sometimes!

 

[saddina]

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80 in the rest of the house, my room sits in the back and the ductwork seems to have been severed (I suspect somepoint when they ran the direct TV lines in before we moved in). But my room has a serious celing fan, so we can get a wind going even with sky high temps, and it's a bedroom, all else fails shuck down to your silkies.

One of the ways i know Mr. Saddi loves me, he moved from cool foggy SF down to a desert. The man's been uncomfortable for years here.