Vitamins and electrolytes

[Big on Red]

Has any of you use rooster booster vitamins and electrolytes. It is getting hot here and I was told to put this in their water just wondering how well it really works if at all. The chickens are about three months old and doing a lot of panting in this heat. So if anybody has used this stuff let me know thanks.

 

[sylviethecochin]

I don't add anything unless they need it. Electrolytes don't do much for you except rehydrate you faster if you're dehydrated. If you're not dehydrated, then it's about the same as drinking regular water (has to do with salt transport in your kidneys.) And honestly, I think it has too much salt to be healthy for chickens on a regular basis. Chickens aren't supposed to have a lot of salt. It's not like they do a lot of sweating.

As for vitamins, do you think your chickens are deficient in anything? Do you feed a decent quality feed? If no and yes, respectively, I don't think vitamins are going to do anything for it.

In this case, it sounds like they need more shade, or perhaps a fan with an icebucket in front of it. There's an area under our porch that's just dry dirt. It's in the shade, and they dig themselves a hole in the cool earth and sleep there.

 

[Folly's place]

Sylvie said it all. Cold water, ice, watermelon, shade. Maybe a fan in the coop. Refresh the waterers mid-day with cold water and/ or ice. Sometimes I mist the area around the coop, if extra humidity isn't an issue already.
No extra stress, so no handling, catching, or anything that's an extra annoyance, during the heat.
Mary

 

[Big on Red]

I don't add anything unless they need it. Electrolytes don't do much for you except rehydrate you faster if you're dehydrated. If you're not dehydrated, then it's about the same as drinking regular water (has to do with salt transport in your kidneys.) And honestly, I think it has too much salt to be healthy for chickens on a regular basis. Chickens aren't supposed to have a lot of salt. It's not like they do a lot of sweating.

As for vitamins, do you think your chickens are deficient in anything? Do you feed a decent quality feed? If no and yes, respectively, I don't think vitamins are going to do anything for it.

In this case, it sounds like they need more shade, or perhaps a fan with an icebucket in front of it. There's an area under our porch that's just dry dirt. It's in the shade, and they dig themselves a hole in the cool earth and sleep there.

Well I do appreciate your come back just didn't know whole lot about this stuff I already have fans and have picked up and Mr. as well seems to really be helping again thanks for your come back.