Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[Lemon-Drop]

I hope all of my fellow Pacific Northwesterners are preparing for the heatwave that is coming our way, with probably unprecedented high temperatures. Shade, ventilation and lots of water are musts.

I’m preparing... but still super nervous for m

With the crazy heat, how do I keep my pullets cool?? They were panting the other day when it was in the 80s. They have a covered run and a large enclosed coop, it is a titch cooler in the coop during the hot days. It's an old sheep stall that we just enclosed some of the exterior and left the rest open. The coop 'wall' is just chicken wire, so tons of ventilation.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...coming-heat-wave.1477756/page-2#post-24627504

This thread may give you some ideas.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Everyone be safe we have air conditioning

 

[rosemarythyme]

Everyone be safe we have air conditioning

We don't. Gonna do what I did the last big heat wave, fill a bathtub and get into it as needed throughout the day to lower body temperature. If push comes to shove I guess we can go to mother-in-law's house as she has AC.

Not going to work out or long-walk the dogs the next few days. The dogs (who are couch potatoes anyhow) can be walked on our gravel driveway which is about half shade. I normally have water outside for them but will put water in the laundry room for them as well.

For the chickens, I'm putting out extra water in open pans, moved around some of my run obstacles to provide more shade behind said items, and plan on propping open the human door for extra ventilation during the next few days. I'm hoping the fact that their run is well shaded most of the afternoon will make a difference.

 

[WhySayWhat]

Frozen peas in a frozen dog water bowl…best o can do to cool them down. It’s 88° in my garage and the run is almost done…should be able to get them out this weekend…if we don’t piss off the wrong neighbor running the circ saw at 5am.

 

[Hinotori]

I put up a tarp in the large fowl run for extra shade. The silkies have more vegetation and shade so they will be good.

Dogs have been camping out on my bed in front of that AC when we come in. House stays cool. It's fairly well insulated, small, and I have half of it closed off.

 

[pennyJo1960]

We have AC and fans moving all over the house is well insulated that sure helps and yes rooms not used close the doors .. frozen feggies to the coops at times banty group got salad leftover last night

 

[pennyJo1960]

Stay hydrated everyone inside tasks here ..
We have air conditioners at least.

 

[Lemon-Drop]

Stay hydrated everyone inside tasks here ..
We have air conditioners at least.

Yes, please stay safe everyone! I'm very lucky to have AC, but my poor chickens...

 

[pennyJo1960]

Going out to clean coops take like 15 minutes but dropping frozen veggies and ice cubes

 

[WhySayWhat]

We are back inside until it starts cooling off, but got the gate (another 8’ one) built and installed. Will go out tonight and take everything out of the shed and officially stop using it for any sort of storage tonight. Tomorrow morning, we will finish up the chicken door from coop to run (followed the instructions, but the hole they had is cut is bigger than the door it came with). Hoping tomorrow night to move the gals out of the garage and into the coop/run. They are tightly packed into their brooder now with not a lot of room to move. Run is completely shaded.

This hot stuff can suck it.