Things you wish you could say

[azurbanclucker]

Probably not, and certainly not fast enough to help them today. Poor chooks are melting

watermelon, cantaloupe, and frozen salad.

 

[500Chickens]

Right. There is no H in Orpington.

Oh, this drives me crazy! My mom is sure it's Orphington

 

[Finchbreeder]

Try saying everything with an Aussie accent and complete down to earth attitude then it really gets interesting.
I am please to say this forum is "real" but some are a bit precious.

 

[Sally PB]

Then maybe we've been misspelling these?
Scorphion
Corphse
Floorphlan
Corphoration
Corphuscle
Corphulent

 

[azurbanclucker]

Try saying everything with an Aussie accent and complete down to earth attitude then it really gets interesting.
I am please to say this forum is "real" but some are a bit precious.

If I say things with an Aussie accent, people get upset.

...Mostly because it's horrific.

 

[500Chickens]

Found this on the candy bowl at work

 

[notabitail]

I tried a swamp cooler last year but it’s so humid here it’s just a waste.

Best thing I found were my box fans and my huge barn fan - silkies were not thrilled but soon learned not to walk broadside to the “breeze”

My brother made a homemade swamp cooler (wood frame on top of bin, with the swamp cooler blue stuff and a pump to put water on it) and it works well here since it's very dry.

 

[HorseGirlAbby]

Water bottles frozen and wrapped in a towel for them to roost on. Fans, shade….

I've never tried the frozen water bottle thing. I get their run wet and they love the mud in the shade. They have a box fan, but in the heat of the day it doesn't help them. In the evening it's really nice.

watermelon, cantaloupe, and frozen salad.

We're having watermelon for dinner tonight, so they'll certainly get the rinds

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Probably not, and certainly not fast enough to help them today. Poor chooks are melting

We freeze GatorAde bottles half full of water, then top them off with cold water and put them in the chickens' water buckets when it's hot out. Helps keep their water nice and cool. Otherwise it gets really warm and they won't drink enough and get dehydrated. And a dehydrated chicken won't eat.

 

[HorseGirlAbby]

We freeze GatorAde bottles half full of water, then top them off with cold water and put them in the chickens' water buckets when it's hot out. Helps keep their water nice and cool. Otherwise it gets really warm and they won't drink enough and get dehydrated. And a dehydrated chicken won't eat.

If we have these high temps for longer than a few days, I freeze water in one of their small rubber bowls and put it in their waterer. It's a really big chunk of ice, so it lasts a long time.