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Thanks I have all my rabbity well into the trees and plenty of shade I opened up a lot of underbrush today that let in some breeze and the mist soaked the food in two cages I think if I placed it higher it wouldn't drift under the eve of those cages. I decided that since they had the shade and it is a bit cooler there to move the mister to the south side of my chicken run where I have some cover for shade it was immeadiatly well recieved
the chickens all left the coop and played in the cool sand and ate drops off the fence and each other after about a half hour most had stopped panting. A couple of my largest Buffs aren't liking the heat too much, My coop is out in the open an made of tin so it gets pretty warm inside, Great in winter but not so much just now, I took some old carpet and spread it on the roof held in place with a few old tires I go out as offen as I can or need to and wet the carpet down and it has worked great for keeping the inside of the coop a few degrees cooler, My neighbor is giving me his old trampoline and I want to span the top of the run with the fabric from it should help give them more shade during the day when I can't be here to water the coop down, I'm adding pic's I took today excuse the jungle around it this is the first year in the last several I have been able to do anything with the yard so it's a work in progess
This is the back (north) end the weeds I've left on purpose to block sun a bit from the sides
The east side, This coop I actually built several years ago to house pigeons that I never got
Most of the pic's I took of the inside came out blurred If you don't already know I like to recycle anything and everything LOL this is my homemade feeder I built about 14 years ago it used to sit in a 4'X4' wooden box with a sloped lid that sat outside the run and had a window in the top so you could see in and allow enough light for the chickens to see to eat looked a lot like a doghouse but between termites, ants and weather it needed to be replaced just haven't had time or materials yet, it holds around 150 lbs of laying pellets.
A few shots of my first hatch in the incubator with their new Mon she is such a good Mother
I changed the chickies playground a bit the others were reaching in and eating too much and fouling the water it has 3 feeders and 3 waterers and the they prefer to hangout inside the cinder block despite Mom telling them constantly Cluck! Cluck! Cluck! which means "get out of that!"
These chickens look a lot like bunnys so I thought I'd show them off a bit
I can't wait to get the new areas built for them will be a lot better but it so stinking hot have to go slow as fast as I can
