Official BYC Poll: How Do You Keep Your Chickens Cool In Summer?

[BDutch]

What summer. We had the coldest and wettest spring here in Europe since 50 years or so.
Please give us a little sunshine if tou have too much!

But if summer hits us, its never a big problem as long as they get fresh water twice a day, plenty of natural shade from bushes and an extremely airy coop, if I remove the lower wood panel and the glass panel.
Edit: mistakes

 

[3KillerBs]

What summer. We had the coldest and wettest spring here in Europe since 50 years or so.
Please give us a little sunshine if tou have too much!

I'd happily share some of my 93F heat in exchange for some of your rain.

 

[sewingkitty1170]

I give my ladies a homemade chicken re-hydration solution made of water with a little salt, sugar and baking soda. On really hot days, they get watermellon straight from the fridge. They know what the plates mean when I come out with them! They also have a few large bushes free-ranging in the yard, and one gigantic English laurel bush that has DEEP shade with cool dirt to hang out under. I'm building a new coop & run and plan to include water misters and a blackberry bush to grow up part of the over the hoop coop & run. They'll have deep sand bedding and DE to dust-bathe in. I may plant some small bushes inside the run and the coop & run will be covered with shade-cloth and heavy corrugated roofing panels.

 

[Salacker]

I give them all sunglasses, straw hats and pitchers of Margaritas.

 

[BDutch]

@K0k0shka has beautiful umbrellas ☂ against the sun.

 

[K0k0shka]

@K0k0shka has beautiful umbrellas ☂ against the sun.

More like against the snow than against the sun, but yeah, the chickens do look quite beachy with them in the summer

 

[Averyloveschickens]

I give them all sunglasses, straw hats and pitchers of Margaritas.

Lol i bet they love it

 

[southern fowl]

I put ice in their water container

 

[NickyPick]

I clicked on 7 options in that poll, as they fit. For my set-up, it's cover in the run, both from a roof and from weed trees and actual trees. Also, in the coop at night, we have the fans on. Actually, once the night time temps get up to the mid 70's and stay there, we keep the coop fans on all summer long. My coop is also large (24x24x20), so there's lots of room for air flow.
For reference, I'm in SE Texas. Summers are a complete and total sauna.

 

[Barbara Cheetham]

When my back door is left open my two ladies Buffy and Molly just walk right in and free range over to the air conditioner because free range in their mind has no boundaries when it means keeping cool.