not eating because the summer heat? a cool water helps

[ericl]

miserable due to Heat Stress? a cool water bath helps!
Our chickens were becoming miserable due to heat stress in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
We give our chickens a quick bath in cool or tepid water on hot nights, and even some days. If they are panting with their mouths open, this quick, brief dunking really cools them off for several hours!
Our hens also benefit from a fan that blows air on them at night.

Six hens, one rooster.

 

[fordmommy]

I read in one of the posts that in that heat you should offer watermelon and ice chips.

I'm in Wisconsin and it is not hot here. We had three days over 90 and that was it. It's been in the 70's and low 80's forever and for as far as the eye can see. We were in a drought though. Finally started getting rain starting last week. Now everyother day or so.