Keeping Ducks Cool In Arizona

[TSOWOATNKC]

I can do it Sunday. But for now check out the Siphon Pro XL on Amazon, and do a google search for stock tanks. You can get Stock tanks of almost any shape and size, even a rounded triangle for smaller spaces! You just need to provide a means for them to get in/out safely and easily.

 

[2 many chickens]

I can do it Sunday. But for now check out the Siphon Pro XL on Amazon, and do a google search for stock tanks. You can get Stock tanks of almost any shape and size, even a rounded triangle for smaller spaces! You just need to provide a means for them to get in/out safely and easily.

Thank you for the information, I will look into this!

 

[Wolfiehowl229]

What I do is I just take a lot of fruits, freeze them, and put them in a little kiddie pool that we have with some ice. I sometimes also put some toys in there with shrimp. Don't put too much in or it will over crowd the water but it will cool them down a lot. Another kind of more useful and fun for sub adult to adult ducks or chickens is to take an automatic dog feeder, put it on some bricks where the bottom part is underwater and I would have it low enough to make it wide enough for fish to get out. Then I would fill it with about a thousand minnows and water depending on which dog feeder I'm using, and every hour probably 100 to 150 will get out into the pool and it will be entertaining to watch but also be great for chickens, turkeys, ducks anything. Sorry this is so long but yeah.

 

[TSOWOATNKC]

I have one 110 gallon plastic one that I use as a brooder as well, two 80 gallon ovals that are out in the yard and changed regularly, 1 galvanized that is 2x2x4 that also is used as a brooder, and a rectangular plastic one that holds 75 gallons that is in the yard too. A big benefit of bigger stock tanks is they have plugs so you don’t have to tip to empty. My 75 and 80 gallon tanks don’t have plugs, but the galvanized circle ones of the same size (I think) have plugs.

 

[Wolfiehowl229]

Seems like you already have a great setup but I would recommend throwing in some frozen chopped up fruits and doing the auto fish feeder thing. Good luck and enjoy your summer! Quack

 

[Apocrypha Fan]

We put misters in for our chickens, maybe ducks would like this too? They run for about ten minutes every hour and it drops the air temp in their run about 15 degrees while running and the ground gets wet and cools down.

Last summer, I had two muscovies on nests in side-by-side airline dog kennels when a heatwave struck. I put a $12 hose-end plastic mister in front of the kennels, and despite the 107 temperature, a week or two later, hatched 11/11 in one nest and 12/16 in the other.