The most effective heat defense I have found is to turn them loose and let them find their own cool spot.
But then, you need some good dogs to protection them.
But then, you need some good dogs to protection them.
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5AcreFarm, I love that big building!!
Here's the 4x8 x 6' tall coop my daughter and I framed the other day. Then today I put the pickets on while my husband worked on fence. Yep, in the heat we were out there. It's about 15 degrees cooler in this yard where the coop is because it's under a bunch of low hanging trees, it's like a tree cave in that whole yard, I love it. When my Silver/Gold Laced Cochins get grown a little they'll go in there with my 4 Dark Brahmas. I've got to put roof panels on the top yet and a floor in and it'll be done. Even has rope lights around the top to draw them in at night. The 2nd pic is the back 1/2 of the inside. It was really simple to make with just 2x4's and pickets.
Joe, the 3 Araucana have a big 50x60 yard all to themselves to hang out in, their yard is right next to the Brahma yard. Yet where were they the whole time we were out there working? They were up and down the fence line talking to us lol My daughter kept feeding them grass, they're just darling birds!
Oh yea, Joe-forgot to ask-how do I get a Brown Red hen like this one I've got? The black one with the lacing on her neck? With her and the rooster have that color of chick if it's a girl? She's started laying today
very nice, mine is going to have standard cochins and turkeys in it. i worked out in the heat most of the day today, and i will be in it all day tomorrow
Okay, okieridge and jcatblum and any other guinea people on here, I need some advice. I had my guineas in their outdoor brooder, and went out this morning and found a dead one. Wasn't sure what happened at first. Didn't look too beat up. It was freshly dead too, rigor mortis hadn't even set in. When I inspected it closer though, it had been beat up pretty bad all around the head. I checked all the other guineas out and two more are hurt. One is hurt REALLY bad, and the other, not so much. The thing is, it's all three of my lavender ones. I brought the really hurt one into the house to try to get it healed up. I turned all the other guineas out of the brooder. When I put the not so hurt lavender on the ground, instead of running over with the other guineas that were all in one big group together, it ran the other direction and tried to climb in with my bantam chickens. I caught it really easily and it didn't seem to mind getting caught as long as it wasn't around the other guineas. I am just going to let the other eleven dark ones range. They're fully feathered and bigger than my bantams. Plenty for them to eat right now, so hopefully they'll be okay. I'm just so mad. Any hope for reintegrating my other two after they get well, or do guineas pretty much congregate by color?
I think they are not. My friend in Dallas just posted elsewhere that she lost a couple of favs in the heat last year.
Nice Coop Mitzi!!5AcreFarm, I love that big building!!
Here's the 4x8 x 6' tall coop my daughter and I framed the other day. Then today I put the pickets on while my husband worked on fence. Yep, in the heat we were out there. It's about 15 degrees cooler in this yard where the coop is because it's under a bunch of low hanging trees, it's like a tree cave in that whole yard, I love it. When my Silver/Gold Laced Cochins get grown a little they'll go in there with my 4 Dark Brahmas. I've got to put roof panels on the top yet and a floor in and it'll be done. Even has rope lights around the top to draw them in at night. The 2nd pic is the back 1/2 of the inside. It was really simple to make with just 2x4's and pickets.
Joe, the 3 Araucana have a big 50x60 yard all to themselves to hang out in, their yard is right next to the Brahma yard. Yet where were they the whole time we were out there working? They were up and down the fence line talking to us lol My daughter kept feeding them grass, they're just darling birds!
Oh yea, Joe-forgot to ask-how do I get a Brown Red hen like this one I've got? The black one with the lacing on her neck? Will her and the rooster have that color of chick if it's a girl? She's started laying today
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You got him back!?!? I'm so glad!! I still look for him. Heck, he's faster than me lolBTW we got our tortoise back!!Somebody found him by charter oak and pine, bugger travelled about two miles in a month
We spent the whole day mowing, including some of the spaces that hadn't been mowed since february. Ran over lots of things we shouldn't have
It's gonna take forever to get this place cleaned up
There is just junk and mangled fence EVERYWHERE!!![]()
well, for now they are on the porch until i can get a coop and run made for them- got the bantam cochin girls set up today- i think the ice and a fan will have to do for now...
i need to invest in shade cloth- is it expensive?the larger the bird the more the heat will bother them shade fabric i
thanks carl, will do that - so just sprinkle it in the water?Add some cayene pepper or something similar to the water this will encourage them to drink more to prevent dehydration.
thats what i did today- and saw some of the silly girls sunbathing! they must not be as sensitive to heat as i amThe most effective heat defense I have found is to turn them loose and let them find their own cool spot.
But then, you need some good dogs to protection them.
I don't know that I'd add pepper to their water as hot as it is. Something as simple as dropping a few ice cubes in there fascinates them enough to start gulping more down.
I did use the frozen 2 liter bottles of water last year and the birds would lay against them.
What great ideas! We built our coop in the shade where it gets a lot of breeze blowing across it. I will have to give them some ice. I try to clean out my ice tray quite a bit to keep the ice from getting all yucky. I'll have to dump it out by my girls and they can do what they want with it. Love the water bottle idea. Will be doing that as well!i watched the bantams play with the ice cubes today, almost like a game to see who could kick it the farthest...