DonyaQuick
Songster
My chickens like to eat ice. They did this in the winter eating little bits of ice that formed on the fence. It was abnormally hot yesterday for the time of year so I sprinkled some mini ice cubes in the run for them. They played with some of it and ate some; it seemed to help a little bit although not a lot. Hosing down part of the run's substrate with cold water seemed to do more for them over a longer time frame. Lets them get their feet wet and evaporatively cool as they walk around. I also give them a little wading tub but I had to teach them to use it by picking up each one and standing them in it a couple times; one still doesn't like it that much but a couple others did make reasonably frequent use of it.