I freeze water in 2 liter soda bottles and put that in our 5 gallon bucket with nipple water spouts! It works great, drop it in the morning and in the evening the water is still very cool for my girls!
Peppermint &green tea, both internal cooling. Chinese medicine herb cooling tea Watermelon & electrolytes on it Running 4 fans in hen house all lexan windows open, 4 fans in play yard. Each fan drops temp about 7 degree. I ziptie frozen gallons on back of fan. 90-115 tropics.
Living in the desert I use misters on timers, and frozen large square type plastic juice bottles that they can stand on. My chickens love them and it cools their blood through their feet.
I live in Texas and It’s already 100! I hooked up the mister to the water hose and put it up so they can get in it. I bought small fans with rechargeable batteries to put in their coops at night to circulate the air.
We have enclosed runs, too, and when I know a heat wave is coming, I'll wet down the ground in the runs in the morning, and again part way through the day if it dries out, and I fill extra rubber feed dishes with cool water for them to stand in, and add ice if needed. I hadn't thought to put frozen milk jugs inside the coop, that's a great idea, especially for those times when it stays hot all night.
I freeze slabs of ice originally to put in the big pans but if I put one on the ground they stand on it. I use the big ziplock rectangle containers and put about an inch of water. I throw in a few vege or fruit pieces. They love them plus I have solar fans in their coops.
I have added usb small fans to two of my three nest boxes. In addition I have Ryobi battery fans. On low they will run about 8 hours. I have elevated their coop 2 ft. Of the ground for shade. The fans shine under the coop. I live in Fl. This worked for my girls. In addition I filled their large run with construction sand. The girls love to dust bath in it. The also have shade from trees as well as I hung a large tarp for more shade.
I use some 13x9 baking pans & add ice water to them during our texas heatwaves & they stand in them when they are hot. I wet the back porch down & I added a fan to their coop for humid still nights. My chickens HATE GREENS. THEY WONT EAT IT!! But they love watermelon & papaya
2 large cookie sheets, put water in one and freeze it. Set the other one inside on top, add 2 inch cold water, it stays cold with frozen under. Hens stand in it cooling feet.
Keep your birds shaded. Lots of good CLEAN water. Change it often in the heat. Think umbrella. Think tarp over the umbrella if it is 100+. Early morning if you can spray it down with water.
Iwanttob.... I thought the tarp would be enough too. I finally got a large oblong plastic container and put enough water in it to cover most of their unfeathered legs and put a frozen bottle of water in it am & pm. It has really helped them. I put that in the shade as well.
I freeze water in solo cups and drop that ice in the waterers a couple times a day. I also run the hose on the ground so they can play and dig in the puddles. No mud issues, I garden in sand. They free range on a quarter acre and have plenty of shade. Fans in the coop, cold treats throughout the day, etc. I can’t wait for winter.
I set up a misting system & run fans. Live in zone 8b, high desert, which gets up to about 110 in summer. Friends in arizona do a shallow wading pool. Shade is a must!
Living in the AZ desert, temps are heading toward and above 110. Our coops are built under a big mesquite tree, so almost constant shade. We also have shallow pails of water for them to stand in, and we freeze water bottles to put in their water/pools to keep water cool. I love the frozen berries idea! We haven’t done it yet this summer, but we usually have a soaker hose on a timer to wet down the ground. Attracts a lot of flies, and it smells, but keeps the ground cool and moist. Until we get the soaker hose timer hooked up, I’ve just been spraying the ground down a few times a day. 😊 have been raising chickens since the “lockdown” and no heat casualties yet! 🤞🤞🤞🤞
This is a needed video. Im just now seeing it but ordered your book earlier this a.m. my chickens are under our deck porch for shade and I put a blanket on the porch so the sun won't go through the boards. I love the idea of frozen water bottles😊 Thank you so much❤
South central Texas gets 100+ so thank goodness other than the shallow water pans we have all the other suggestions covered. Lost an Americana to the heat last year managed to help the other one "Tuff" survive. It scared the you know what outa me so made sure we're much better prepared for the heat this year.
I buy my chickens melons. Put them in the fridge then cut them in half and they love the cool flesh and the seeds inside. I know 'm bonkers but I love my chickaloos.
I live in Illinois in a far south Chicago suburb. It has been in the 90’s here. I have six outside chicks and 11 babies. The babies are inside in my dining room in their brooders. The outside chickens have a plastic tarp completely covering their the roof of their chicken run. They have water. My husband checks their water twice a day. I check their food daily. And we intermittently check on them throughout the day. So far they are doing fine.
I use an exhaust fan in the pitch of my coop and one or two vents open across of it. it makes a nice breeze. The exhaust fan and vents are all covered with hardware cloth
So many good tips, thank you. I live in Tucson, Arizona with all my chickens (Silky's, Road Island reds, Barred Rock, Americana, and one Seabright (his name is Captain and he thinks he runs this place). Love your channel and appreciate all the love that you bring us chicken lovers. Thanks.
Love you and your channel! I found small fans that I attached to their run and another set in a vent inside their coop. They come two in a set and run off of one solar panel. We've had these for about a year and they work great at moving the air, at least during the day.
We have arena sand in our coop and our run. I hose down the sand to make it kind of wet and cool so the chickens can stand in it and run through it while they drink water out of the cooler.
You look well rested today 💥. I was just speaking to my friend who will watch my critters as I go see my mom...lows 50-54, highs only 84! Very unusual for California where I live this time of year
this is one of the reasons why I moved my coop and run to under the tree on the west side of the house because where they were it got so hot in the coop and run it was horrible so I moved them and it has been so nice under that tree, but it nearly killed me building it with scraps and not having all the materials needed as they girls were still using the coop and run until I got the coop and run ready, after all is said and done the coop run looks like a mess, so I am thinking of calling it tragedy and hope. it is a tragedy it looks like crap but hope in that it will keep the girls safe from teh heat and predators.
You know, talking about predator proofing stuff. I had this hutch that's pretty high up off the ground and I had some of my bantams in it, and I never thought that we had any rats....till the day i found 2 of my bantams dead in that hutch. I was shocked cause I thought them being g up iff the ground that they be okay.
I set up a small cooling “pond” (short bucket) with almost submerged bricks to stand on. Of my 8 different heritage breed 1-year-olds, smarty-feathers M’Lady, my LightBrahma who is not as heat tolerant as I had read when selecting breeds, hogs the pond even on coolish days! But my sweetest CreamLegbar Melody won’t use it no matter how hot she gets💔 I haven’t frozen jugs yet, will make freezer space before we get another 115🍳F spike again! Sonoma County CA/WILDFIRE🔥COUNTRY. Even in full drought with our river nearly disappeared, I kept them OK by misting & spraying acre-feet onto their metal roof and throughout their run. Also made a makeshift air-conditioner & ice treats. More tall plants, vines (chayote, hops, loofah🎉), shade cloth, umbrellas & opening a small field this week (watching carefully for hawks) Another hot tip: old desert flocks were protected with burlap & a sprinkler dripping over the super-heated metal roofing I inherited. Local feedstore told me that one & that they had tragically lost all their chickens one nasty heat spike.😢
@@WelcometoChickenlandia Long before I ever dreamed I’d become a doting chicken momma! So happy I haven’t lost one of my own dears, yet, but huge white M’Lady did have a hawk scare, went into such deep hiding that even though no blood or feathers, I believed horribly that she was somehow taken.
In the summer I freeze fruit in ice blocks and they love it. My coop is raised and they have a nice cross breeze under there. In the summer we use a screen coop door using chicken wire fencing so it’s still safe.
It's almost always hot here in TX so I am almost always seeing my Chickens with there wings out, and it is about to get HOTER here. I have three water spots for them and I have to refull every day, but luckily they are low enough so my chickens can walk right through the water no matter what waterer they are neer
I have a question for you. I'll be a first time chicken mom and I have a concern about my yard just because I think someone in the victorian times has used it for a dumping site. I'm really concerned about Brocken little bit of glass in dirt where I will be putting my six hens. I thought about digging up dirt where they will be located and shift it through a small mesh and then put it back down on spot. I was thinking about putting mesh under the run area to keep predators out. Any suggestions would be very helpful. Thanks for any advice.
Random question. 102 degrees here using frozen water bottles and cool water ice in bowls. My question is I’ve had chickens for years. Yesterday recognized one of my hens has bumble foot never had this before but separated her and soaked her foot (today it’s on both) soaked her feet again and pulled out the corn or hard piece and cotton soaked in benedine and vet wrapped do you do anything different what us recovery time?
I've been scared about my chickens during this continuing wildfire smoke from Canada. I don't let them out beyond their run during the really bad days but other than that, not sure what else I can do. We do not have a basement or garage.
DollarTree has metallic tablecloths (54" x 104" or 4.5 x 8.6 feet) that provide my birds and me with a means to reflect the burning sunlight on the cheap! Put 'em silver side out--as a bonus, when I taped a piece over my kitchen window, the harsh sunlight gave the rainbow-patterned side a cheery glow. Be aware they'll tear like a chip bag if they're ripped, but you can clip 'em with clothespins onto fences and branches to make shade. I just draped one over some bushes where my birds like to congregate. Sure, my place looks like an homage to foil-wrapped baked potatoes--but these posh birds ain't baking, and that's what counts.
Thanks for summer tips especially for LasVegas. I just noticed one of my one day old chick has a bump below its fecal hole and hole is not open. I am afraid if it will live. Any advice if I should Pearce its bottom to make opening to poop,???
I just have city water (not a well) with probably some chlorine and fluoride--whatever city water usually has in it. Is that OK? Or do I need to try to get some type of filter? Sorry if this is a silly question.
Not silly at all. It really depends on what you feel comfortable with. Do you drink the water or do you filter it? If you’re very concerned you could filter it (be sure to add minerals back in), it would certainly be a good thing. When I was in the city, honestly, I drank filtered water but I didn’t even think about filtering the chickens’ water. Maybe now I would, though. ❤️
@@WelcometoChickenlandia We drink the water unfiltered and give it to our very loved little dog. We are getting ready to welcome our first chicks so we are trying to get as much information as possible. Have been wondering about the water, so thank you for answering!
Moving the comments off of 69! Keeping mine in their cool coop most of the day. Yes on that styrofoam AND SPRAY IN GAP FILLER! What is up with that? Oh, and that corn based packing peanuts (called the company on that one) is not okay for them, even though they like then.
my chicken passed away from a head peck and I rehomed one and I freeze peas and give ice water but my 3month black chicken feel off her roost then 2 days later she passed out having seizures, she got bad case of heat stroke. She is in the house with her best friend and her two new friends, they are very supportive to her and sleep with her. I am so concerned, she is a fighter and I gave her eletrotyles 911 powder and did dropper for hours of water for her, and she got sugar water and I put probiotics and water in the food to soften it and she and her friends ate a total of 6 scrambled eggs, I guess i am going back to the store because she is only 3months and not making eggs yet
How in the world are you able to hold your chickens and they dont scream and flap around wanting down. We had these chickens awhile back that allowed my granddaughter to hold and carry around and they seemed fine with it. I just dont understand.
Help. I have ground squirrels. I won’t harm them. Relocating will take a ton of effort. They can dig down 6feet! I tried hard wire cloth on the bottom of their coop’s little run and the squirrels dug, then put dirt over the wire. They hauled out all of the dirt under neath by burrowing! I was petting the squirrel through the hardwire cloth on the bottom of the run!!!! Good grief. These ground squirrels are costing me a fortune in feed. I bought a big bag of grower feed by mistake and instead if returning it, I decided to just feed the squirrels it outside of the run in order to give my chickens a chance at eating their food. My roosters will jump and smack me with their legs, but they’ll stand right next to the 3 squirrels and let them eat up their food. There are now a couple of squirrels that look like ground hogs - from such a great diet. I think I will need to trap and relocate at least 20 of these poops. But, more will follow, so do you have any suggestions?
That sounds really frustrating. I'm no expert, but all I can think of is to concrete the run and make sure there's nice deep bedding for the chickens to walk on over it.
Could you switch to feeding at set times and only giving the chickens what they will eat while you're there? I doubt the squirrels will show up while you're present and that would at least save you money on feed. You might be able to do that for a week or two and the squirrels would learn that there wasn't anything for them there. I'd think that'd be more likely to work if you paired it with something deterrent. Perhaps borrow a friend's dog and get them to pee around the bounds of the coop and run, just to send the message here there be predators? Or I think Dalia has a video about using ammonia to deter critters. Another option might be to call a local wildlife rehabilitator. They may be able to give you suggestions to find a way to coexist with the squirrels, as they also prefer to avoid relocating animals. Hope you're able to figure it out, that sounds crazy making!
Add red chili pepper flakes and cayenne pepper powder into your feed. Just mix it right into the feed. Then you can also sprinkle chili pepper flakes on the ground where they have tunneled underneath the wire mesh. The other animals won't go near the hot pepper flakes or powder. It doesn't have to be name brand. The cheapest is fine. These are all things I had to do for mine. I even sprinkled the ground around the coop to make them stay away. It works really well. My chickens are happy now.
I do want to know why they go out into the heat, lay down on their side & open a wing. They doing everyday & everyday I think they are dead. It scares me. I've asked them to stop & they refuse.
try not to put up gang sings like that... those who know whats what might feel some kind of way about it...👌especially given your previous employment...
I'm in the UK and it doesn't normally get very hot here but we had a massive heat wave last year and I ended up bringing all 21 chickens indoors. I am planning for it this year so getting some great tips from you. Like the idea of a redneck AC lol.
I use a gravity waterer, but I freeze water in blocks to put in, in the morning. I also take freezy cooler packs and make them a shallow cardboard box to sit on them in.. 🧊
I freeze water in 2 liter soda bottles and put that in our 5 gallon bucket with nipple water spouts! It works great, drop it in the morning and in the evening the water is still very cool for my girls!
I do the exact thing for my babies. ❤🐔❤️
That's a great idea. I'm gonna have to do that for my babies. We are in the deep south and it's 90° by 8am.
My 4 rooster 🐓 knock the bucket and I don’t know how.
😂😂😂😂
Peppermint &green tea, both internal cooling.
Chinese medicine herb cooling tea
Watermelon & electrolytes on it
Running 4 fans in hen house all lexan windows open, 4 fans in play yard. Each fan drops temp about 7 degree. I ziptie frozen gallons on back of fan.
90-115 tropics.
Living in the desert I use misters on timers, and frozen large square type plastic juice bottles that they can stand on. My chickens love them and it cools their blood through their feet.
You can also take frozen bottles and choose a sort of cool place and put frozen bottles to really cool the ground.
I have your book! I love it!
Thank you so much!
My Easter egger loooooves laying in a cold bath. Not stand. Lay lol. She's so funny. She gets excited when I bring it out 😂
I live in Texas and It’s already 100! I hooked up the mister to the water hose and put it up so they can get in it. I bought small fans with rechargeable batteries to put in their coops at night to circulate the air.
We have enclosed runs, too, and when I know a heat wave is coming, I'll wet down the ground in the runs in the morning, and again part way through the day if it dries out, and I fill extra rubber feed dishes with cool water for them to stand in, and add ice if needed. I hadn't thought to put frozen milk jugs inside the coop, that's a great idea, especially for those times when it stays hot all night.
Perfect ❤
You are the sweetest,most enthusiastic, channel creator i watch. Sincerely, Tee in N.M.
I freeze slabs of ice originally to put in the big pans but if I put one on the ground they stand on it. I use the big ziplock rectangle containers and put about an inch of water. I throw in a few vege or fruit pieces. They love them plus I have solar fans in their coops.
I have added usb small fans to two of my three nest boxes. In addition I have Ryobi battery fans. On low they will run about 8 hours. I have elevated their coop 2 ft. Of the ground for shade. The fans shine under the coop. I live in Fl. This worked for my girls. In addition I filled their large run with construction sand. The girls love to dust bath in it. The also have shade from trees as well as I hung a large tarp for more shade.
I use some 13x9 baking pans & add ice water to them during our texas heatwaves & they stand in them when they are hot. I wet the back porch down & I added a fan to their coop for humid still nights. My chickens HATE GREENS. THEY WONT EAT IT!! But they love watermelon & papaya
2 large cookie sheets, put water in one and freeze it. Set the other one inside on top, add 2 inch cold water, it stays cold with frozen under. Hens stand in it cooling feet.
Shade cloths are a great investment..i put over my runs
Thank you Delilah! This is my 1st year with chickens and I love love your chickens! Yes they do bring me Peace as well!!!
Dalia is her name.
Keep your birds shaded. Lots of good CLEAN water. Change it often in the heat. Think umbrella. Think tarp over the umbrella if it is 100+. Early morning if you can spray it down with water.
Too funny girl, u make me laugh, good quality trade to hav😂
I bought shade cloth and used that to cover the run. They should be fine with it.
Iwanttob.... I thought the tarp would be enough too. I finally got a large oblong plastic container and put enough water in it to cover most of their unfeathered legs and put a frozen bottle of water in it am & pm. It has really helped them. I put that in the shade as well.
I freeze water in solo cups and drop that ice in the waterers a couple times a day. I also run the hose on the ground so they can play and dig in the puddles. No mud issues, I garden in sand. They free range on a quarter acre and have plenty of shade. Fans in the coop, cold treats throughout the day, etc. I can’t wait for winter.
I set up a misting system & run fans. Live in zone 8b, high desert, which gets up to about 110 in summer. Friends in arizona do a shallow wading pool. Shade is a must!
I LOVE your tattoo!!! Thank you for all you do Dalia ❤❤
Thanks! My chickens needed this.
Ive been using those big clear plaster plant saucers. Fill those up with water, my chicks love to cool off. And less than a dollar
I live in Northeast Oklahoma where in the summer time it's 100 + degrees and Short summers also and the Winters are below Zero..
I am in Southern California and its still in the high 60s here! Crazy days
I learned so much from Madam President! I’m dreading summer in South Carolina already…
Living in the AZ desert, temps are heading toward and above 110. Our coops are built under a big mesquite tree, so almost constant shade. We also have shallow pails of water for them to stand in, and we freeze water bottles to put in their water/pools to keep water cool. I love the frozen berries idea!
We haven’t done it yet this summer, but we usually have a soaker hose on a timer to wet down the ground. Attracts a lot of flies, and it smells, but keeps the ground cool and moist. Until we get the soaker hose timer hooked up, I’ve just been spraying the ground down a few times a day. 😊 have been raising chickens since the “lockdown” and no heat casualties yet! 🤞🤞🤞🤞
This is a needed video. Im just now seeing it but ordered your book earlier this a.m. my chickens are under our deck porch for shade and I put a blanket on the porch so the sun won't go through the boards. I love the idea of frozen water bottles😊
Thank you so much❤
Thanks so much Dalia , I can use this information to keep my girls 🐔🐔🐔🐔cool👍🏼
South central Texas gets 100+ so thank goodness other than the shallow water pans we have all the other suggestions covered. Lost an Americana to the heat last year managed to help the other one "Tuff" survive. It scared the you know what outa me so made sure we're much better prepared for the heat this year.
It’s tough! My sister is in Dallas and it just get so hot!
I buy my chickens melons. Put them in the fridge then cut them in half and they love the cool flesh and the seeds inside. I know 'm bonkers but I love my chickaloos.
I live in Illinois in a far south Chicago suburb. It has been in the 90’s here. I have six outside chicks and 11 babies. The babies are inside in my dining room in their brooders. The outside chickens have a plastic tarp completely covering their the roof of their chicken run. They have water. My husband checks their water twice a day. I check their food daily. And we intermittently check on them throughout the day. So far they are doing fine.
I just ordered your book! I can't wait to read it!!!!!! Thank you, Mrs. President! ❤️🐔❤️
Great video!! Thank you for the great information
I use an exhaust fan in the pitch of my coop and one or two vents open across of it. it makes a nice breeze. The exhaust fan and vents are all covered with hardware cloth
So many good tips, thank you. I live in Tucson, Arizona with all my chickens (Silky's, Road Island reds, Barred Rock, Americana, and one Seabright (his name is Captain and he thinks he runs this place). Love your channel and appreciate all the love that you bring us chicken lovers. Thanks.
I used to live in Tucson! One of my favorite places on the planet.
Thanks for the Ryobi Fan tip. Was trying to figure out what fan I could put in their coop that didn't require electricity. I live in Florida too.
THANKS 😁
Love you and your channel! I found small fans that I attached to their run and another set in a vent inside their coop. They come two in a set and run off of one solar panel. We've had these for about a year and they work great at moving the air, at least during the day.
We have arena sand in our coop and our run. I hose down the sand to make it kind of wet and cool so the chickens can stand in it and run through it while they drink water out of the cooler.
Thanks for the great tips. I added small solar fans and they work surprisingly well.
Baby pool with a small amount of water for them to stand in
You look well rested today 💥. I was just speaking to my friend who will watch my critters as I go see my mom...lows 50-54, highs only 84! Very unusual for California where I live this time of year
this is one of the reasons why I moved my coop and run to under the tree on the west side of the house because where they were it got so hot in the coop and run it was horrible so I moved them and it has been so nice under that tree, but it nearly killed me building it with scraps and not having all the materials needed as they girls were still using the coop and run until I got the coop and run ready, after all is said and done the coop run looks like a mess, so I am thinking of calling it tragedy and hope. it is a tragedy it looks like crap but hope in that it will keep the girls safe from teh heat and predators.
Yes, that’s all that matters!! ❤
My chickens and ducks love lettuce I Gove ot to mine year around
They also love broccoli leaves.
You know, talking about predator proofing stuff. I had this hutch that's pretty high up off the ground and I had some of my bantams in it, and I never thought that we had any rats....till the day i found 2 of my bantams dead in that hutch. I was shocked cause I thought them being g up iff the ground that they be okay.
I’m so sorry!
I have your book on order!❤
Thank you!
I set up a small cooling “pond” (short bucket) with almost submerged bricks to stand on. Of my 8 different heritage breed 1-year-olds, smarty-feathers M’Lady, my LightBrahma who is not as heat tolerant as I had read when selecting breeds, hogs the pond even on coolish days!
But my sweetest CreamLegbar Melody won’t use it no matter how hot she gets💔 I haven’t frozen jugs yet, will make freezer space before we get another 115🍳F spike again! Sonoma County CA/WILDFIRE🔥COUNTRY. Even in full drought with our river nearly disappeared, I kept them OK by misting & spraying acre-feet onto their metal roof and throughout their run. Also made a makeshift air-conditioner & ice treats. More tall plants, vines (chayote, hops, loofah🎉), shade cloth, umbrellas & opening a small field this week (watching carefully for hawks)
Another hot tip: old desert flocks were protected with burlap & a sprinkler dripping over the super-heated metal roofing I inherited. Local feedstore told me that one & that they had tragically lost all their chickens one nasty heat spike.😢
All of them?! Oh that’s so hard. 😢
@@WelcometoChickenlandia Long before I ever dreamed I’d become a doting chicken momma! So happy I haven’t lost one of my own dears, yet, but huge white M’Lady did have a hawk scare, went into such deep hiding that even though no blood or feathers, I believed horribly that she was somehow taken.
@WelcometoChickenlandia, Dalia!! Thank you so much!!! This is exactly the information that I needed. Just in time for our approaching summer heat!
In the summer I freeze fruit in ice blocks and they love it. My coop is raised and they have a nice cross breeze under there. In the summer we use a screen coop door using chicken wire fencing so it’s still safe.
Ive pulled so much enjoyed information from you as a newbie. Thank you for sharing
I give them sliced cold watermelon sprinkled with small seeds. They run from across the yard when they see the watermelon.
We buy watermellons and do lettice every 80 degree day. Its 90 today a rare event here in the way north.
These are some great ideas! 😊 my chickens love to make holes in dirt in the forested shady area.
It's almost always hot here in TX so I am almost always seeing my Chickens with there wings out, and it is about to get HOTER here. I have three water spots for them and I have to refull every day, but luckily they are low enough so my chickens can walk right through the water no matter what waterer they are neer
Hello love your channel I have chickens but only three is it safe to give them scratch food if they don’t lay egg yet
Great ideas!!
Yes, p.s. the water bottles go in their rippled water bucket😊
However do you cook your chicken?
Temps 88-90f humidity 80%, super hot in Arkansas
How early can you feed your chickens with oyster shells added to their regular feed?
You have ducks and chickens together- how do you keep your ducks watered? And how am I gonna keep my ducks watered this winter when it’s freezing?
How about a sprinkler? Would that work, too?
Does does chickens quit laying eggs when it is too hot for them
I have a question for you. I'll be a first time chicken mom and I have a concern about my yard just because I think someone in the victorian times has used it for a dumping site. I'm really concerned about Brocken little bit of glass in dirt where I will be putting my six hens. I thought about digging up dirt where they will be located and shift it through a small mesh and then put it back down on spot. I was thinking about putting mesh under the run area to keep predators out. Any suggestions would be very helpful. Thanks for any advice.
Random question. 102 degrees here using frozen water bottles and cool water ice in bowls. My question is I’ve had chickens for years. Yesterday recognized one of my hens has bumble foot never had this before but separated her and soaked her foot (today it’s on both) soaked her feet again and pulled out the corn or hard piece and cotton soaked in benedine and vet wrapped do you do anything different what us recovery time?
I've been scared about my chickens during this continuing wildfire smoke from Canada. I don't let them out beyond their run during the really bad days but other than that, not sure what else I can do. We do not have a basement or garage.
What is the black kennel mama and babies are in?? I need oneeeeee
DollarTree has metallic tablecloths (54" x 104" or 4.5 x 8.6 feet) that provide my birds and me with a means to reflect the burning sunlight on the cheap! Put 'em silver side out--as a bonus, when I taped a piece over my kitchen window, the harsh sunlight gave the rainbow-patterned side a cheery glow. Be aware they'll tear like a chip bag if they're ripped, but you can clip 'em with clothespins onto fences and branches to make shade. I just draped one over some bushes where my birds like to congregate. Sure, my place looks like an homage to foil-wrapped baked potatoes--but these posh birds ain't baking, and that's what counts.
Thanks for summer tips especially for LasVegas. I just noticed one of my one day old chick has a bump below its fecal hole and hole is not open. I am afraid if it will live. Any advice if I should Pearce its bottom to make opening to poop,???
Also I had a fan
Watermelon rind or the whole fruit . . . ?
How is giving them something that is a diuretic become hydrating during a heatwave???
I just have city water (not a well) with probably some chlorine and fluoride--whatever city water usually has in it. Is that OK? Or do I need to try to get some type of filter? Sorry if this is a silly question.
Not silly at all. It really depends on what you feel comfortable with. Do you drink the water or do you filter it? If you’re very concerned you could filter it (be sure to add minerals back in), it would certainly be a good thing. When I was in the city, honestly, I drank filtered water but I didn’t even think about filtering the chickens’ water. Maybe now I would, though. ❤️
@@WelcometoChickenlandia We drink the water unfiltered and give it to our very loved little dog. We are getting ready to welcome our first chicks so we are trying to get as much information as possible. Have been wondering about the water, so thank you for answering!
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Old computer fans are literally a dollar a dozen and are perfect for ventilation.
Am soaking deep the sand, puddle it. In shade it's 89-99 so fans with frozen gallons ziptied on back.
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Battery 18" sq. Fans, easy put frozen water bottles behind it.
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Moving the comments off of 69! Keeping mine in their cool coop most of the day. Yes on that styrofoam AND SPRAY IN GAP FILLER! What is up with that? Oh, and that corn based packing peanuts (called the company on that one) is not okay for them, even though they like then.
my chicken passed away from a head peck and I rehomed one and I freeze peas and give ice water but my 3month black chicken feel off her roost then 2 days later she passed out having seizures, she got bad case of heat stroke. She is in the house with her best friend and her two new friends, they are very supportive to her and sleep with her. I am so concerned, she is a fighter and I gave her eletrotyles 911 powder and did dropper for hours of water for her, and she got sugar water and I put probiotics and water in the food to soften it and she and her friends ate a total of 6 scrambled eggs, I guess i am going back to the store because she is only 3months and not making eggs yet
How in the world are you able to hold your chickens and they dont scream and flap around wanting down.
We had these chickens awhile back that allowed my granddaughter to hold and carry around and they seemed fine with it.
I just dont understand.
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Help. I have ground squirrels. I won’t harm them. Relocating will take a ton of effort. They can dig down 6feet! I tried hard wire cloth on the bottom of their coop’s little run and the squirrels dug, then put dirt over the wire. They hauled out all of the dirt under neath by burrowing! I was petting the squirrel through the hardwire cloth on the bottom of the run!!!! Good grief. These ground squirrels are costing me a fortune in feed. I bought a big bag of grower feed by mistake and instead if returning it, I decided to just feed the squirrels it outside of the run in order to give my chickens a chance at eating their food. My roosters will jump and smack me with their legs, but they’ll stand right next to the 3 squirrels and let them eat up their food. There are now a couple of squirrels that look like ground hogs - from such a great diet. I think I will need to trap and relocate at least 20 of these poops. But, more will follow, so do you have any suggestions?
That sounds really frustrating. I'm no expert, but all I can think of is to concrete the run and make sure there's nice deep bedding for the chickens to walk on over it.
Maybe adding red pepper flakes to the food would help. Birds don’t mind it but maybe the squirrels would?
Could you switch to feeding at set times and only giving the chickens what they will eat while you're there? I doubt the squirrels will show up while you're present and that would at least save you money on feed. You might be able to do that for a week or two and the squirrels would learn that there wasn't anything for them there. I'd think that'd be more likely to work if you paired it with something deterrent. Perhaps borrow a friend's dog and get them to pee around the bounds of the coop and run, just to send the message here there be predators? Or I think Dalia has a video about using ammonia to deter critters. Another option might be to call a local wildlife rehabilitator. They may be able to give you suggestions to find a way to coexist with the squirrels, as they also prefer to avoid relocating animals. Hope you're able to figure it out, that sounds crazy making!
Oh my goodness those little rascals! Could you try grandpa feeders?
Add red chili pepper flakes and cayenne pepper powder into your feed. Just mix it right into the feed. Then you can also sprinkle chili pepper flakes on the ground where they have tunneled underneath the wire mesh. The other animals won't go near the hot pepper flakes or powder. It doesn't have to be name brand. The cheapest is fine.
These are all things I had to do for mine. I even sprinkled the ground around the coop to make them stay away. It works really well. My chickens are happy now.
We gave our chickens watermelon and it gave them diarrhea. Took the watermelon away and the diarrhea stopped.
I haven’t had that issue but they can also get diarrhea from the very hot weather as well. ❤
@@WelcometoChickenlandia I think we just gave them too much watermelon at one time, thus the diarrhea "
I do want to know why they go out into the heat, lay down on their side & open a wing. They doing everyday & everyday I think they are dead. It scares me. I've asked them to stop & they refuse.
U are so darn cute with ur chicks. It’s been sooo Hot here too
Chickens quit laying eggs when it's too hot
I’m pretty sure I saw a duck
try not to put up gang sings like that... those who know whats what might feel some kind of way about it...👌especially given your previous employment...
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I'm in the UK and it doesn't normally get very hot here but we had a massive heat wave last year and I ended up bringing all 21 chickens indoors. I am planning for it this year so getting some great tips from you. Like the idea of a redneck AC lol.
I use a gravity waterer, but I freeze water in blocks to put in, in the morning. I also take freezy cooler packs and make them a shallow cardboard box to sit on them in..
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