Tips on keeping them cool on a hot day?

[wyododge]

A white sheet will reflect a good portion of UV rays, and not absorb any heat. Provides a little cooler area to be in. A little spray of water will evaporate, but quickly. It got up to 100 here this summer and mine just got under some big weeds we did not cut down. If you could plant some bushes or something that may help too.

 

[Mama Hen Chris]

I took some 2 liter plastic soda/pop bottles, milk containers and orange juice containers , added water and froze them. Then put them in their run or their coop. My 3 little girls would sit on them or lay next to them to stay cool.

My Delaware in the pool

 

[DazeGoneBy]

We built a chicken igloo...here's the thread detailing how and our results. It's from a few months ago during our summer, the hottest in decades:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=550455

 

[NinnyGillaspie]

Hi, I'm in Texas and we had the hottest summer in 50 years here, and no rain for 4 months. I kept my chicks a water tub to swim in, froze 2 liter bottles of water and laid them in their resting place for some A/C. When they melted, I refroze them . I also made popsicles and put corn, seed. fruit, veggies in them. The chicks pecked at the ice to get to the goodies. Ice and gatorade in the drinking water is good too. Good luck with your chickens and the heat.

 

[ChickenPeep]

I put sand in the run and something to create shade over it. My chickens would lay in the sand in the shade and cool off. I think it really helped.
Right now, im not worried about the heat, just the cold!!

 

[Baymule]

I can feel for you. I live in east Texas and we just concluded the hottest summer in over 50 years with temps over 100 for 2 1/2 straight months. Add the worst drought in memory and you get the picture. Every evening I watered down "mud holes" for the girls so they could have cooling earth the next day. I gave them frozen watermelon and also froze kitchen trimmings and leftovers for them. I put up feedsacks to block the sun. A friend's coop didn't have a earth floor and his girls were really miserable, so he put a sprinkler on the roof and rigged up a fan to blow through the water dripping off the roof, in essence he built an evaporative cooler the cheap redneck way. Neither one of us lost any to heat, so I guess we did something right. good luck to you.