Chickens too Dang HOT? Build Them a Redneck AC! (No Electricity Needed)
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I don't know if and when you may see this, but my wife and I understand your pain over loosing one of your dear chickens. We are sorry for your loss. We lost four of our babies in two consecutive weeks.
When it's scorching hot I go out with the hose and wet the area under the trees where there's deep shade. The whole flock goes and hangs out there (beaks close again and all is well.) I also add frozen berries (when we have extra) and ice cubes to the open water tubs.
Awesome plan!
That's what I do! It feels even nicer in the green shade with water droplets in the leaves and grass. I also hung up a fan at ground level in their main shady spot. They all wind up standing in front of the fan with their butt feathers fluttering in the breeze.
I do this too and they like to sit where I just sprayed water!
I have several freezers that hold the previous years leftover harvest. I take an ice chest out daily and leave big frozen blocks of green beans, cabbage, corn, etc... in their shady spots. They stay cool, fed and my feed bill stays low.
Thank you for this - here in Florida and as a new chicken momma I have been worried about making sure my girls are ok out in the heat. I definitely keep frozen used water bottles in the freezer and switch those - and lunchbox ice packs for quick cooling
Yes that works too!
Found your channel a few weeks ago and just love your vibe and eccentric nature. 🤗 We are a small family run vertical farm in the midlands of South Carolina. Your videos have helped us with our backyard flock, so I thought I'd let you and your viewers know that we are currently open sourcing all of our methodology on our new channel. Our core belief is that the sustainable decentralization of the food supply is a moral imperative.
Thanks again for all the awesome chicken content! ✌️🌱
Thank you for sharing such important information!
We have a box fan and get the 2 gallon containers of water. We freeze the water and put the entire container in front of the fan. They love it. I also spray down the area (shaded) with the hose every two hours or so. I’ve also placed ice cubes in their water. Temps here feel like 105. They’re doing fine.
That's a next-level AC! Awesome.
@@WelcometoChickenlandia 😁😁Thanks!! Coming from you, I feel like I’m doing something right! We’re new to the coop world as of this April, so finding your channel has been a blessing. We feel like all we do is problem solve, and we love it. Now to figure who’s a boy and a girl. We have 10. 2 are crowing, but others act pretty cocky, so…. Thanks again!
@@phs2937 Hi , I got my 7 in April as well. I've had 2 start crowing, (non stop it seems), and another is also a bit more independent .... it's hot here too, 107 yesterday, nor Cal. Her videos are life savers and so fun to watch. I'm surprised there aren't more subscribers because she is smart and fun!
What a great idea!!! I wish it were 90 here, lol its 102 and we are HOT! I have 2 fans running in the coop, and that's were my babies stay when it starts getting hot. thank you so much for posting!
You are so welcome.
What are your ideas for keeping your chickens cool? Post them here! 👇
I put bottles of frozen water in their water to help keep it cooler. I also freeze their fruits and veggies partially, including mealworms, the ladies love them and frozen watermelon. I have all weather curtains around their run extending halfway down from top to block sun. Looking forward to seeing everyone's favorite things they do. I'm going to try your cooler 💡:)
Texas here.. Shade tarps, box fan, frozen blocks, AND the biggest help has been spraying down the ground in their shaded area where they all go. I soak the ground which keeps it cooler and the fan blowing the moist, evaporating air makes a big difference. Oh, and I give them frozen peas, chilled watermelon or something each day.
My girls love mash. I mix their feed with cold water in a small tub, like a whipped topping carton and stick it in the freezer for an hour or so. Not brick hard, but really cold and slightly icy. They love pecking at it. I also give cold watery veggies and fruit. My girls love chilled cukes, cabbage, melon, berries, etc.
Yes, Helen, I save my drink bottles and do the same. It helps.
😅😅😅😅😅 you are too funny about the sunglasses 😂😂😂😂 .... I LOVE your tatt ❤.... I just love your videos and podcasts and everything I can get from you!! Thank you for existing and everything you do Dalia!
heat indexes of 114 yesterday practically had to build the girls a igloo. my freezer is full of one gallon buckets filled with water.🌞🌡
Oh my goodness. We don’t have to deal with that up here! But I wish our summers were longer. Sounds like your ladies are very well cared for!
Another idea is to install some solar powered fans.
Large shallow pan with water in it with two 1 gallon frozen milk jugs inside the pan the chickens put their feet in there and it cools them down.
Yasss great idea!
Mine refuse to go in the water, even when we encourage it.
@@phs2937 Mine refuse to wade in a pool! I even made a brick staircase up to the edge and another one that descended into the water step by step so they could just wet the parts they wanted, but no00oo! They looked at the pool and then glared at me like they thought I was pulling a fast one.
@@Susie_Floozie Same here for the looks! We tried holding them in just so they could see it felt good on their feet, but I guess that instinctive fear is deeply grounded! I thought about putting something in the pool to act like a perch, but with yours still insisting on “not a chance,” I guess I’ll spend my time cooling them off by other means. Thank you for the heads up!
@@phs2937 Here's my bathing ritual for my main hen, a big Buff Orp: I gently lower Goldie into a washtub of barely cool water that's just above her buttfluff. The whole time, I'm stroking her and crooning to her in a soothing voice. As she settles into the water, I massage her spine and gently lift her wings away from her body with one hand while I pour water under her wings with a cupped hand. The underfluff is water-resistant, so I rub it gently underwater like I'm shampooing it to work the water to the follicles. I make sure to lift her hackle feathers and get cool water on her neck. Goldie seems to like it...until I lift her out of the drink and she beats the bejesus out of me with her wings, then splashes me right in my glasses and face as she shakes off and harrumphs at me.
My wife makes frozen chickens treats in a muffin tin, Blessings
I’ve seen that online! Such a great idea.
This is great. Thank you. Henry in slow motion with the music was hilarious.
Haha my editor did that! He's such a talent.
I KNEW*** Kiki was your favorite chicken!!!!!!!! 🐦 I could just tell how much you loved her every second of her sweet little life. ❤️❤️❤️ RIP precious little bird. 🕊 Reminds me of my blonde little serama Marilyn who passed away too soon after a long health journey of highs and lows and living in the house with me sometimes, still have her sister Norma Jean 💕
PS styrofoam is made from corn 💁♀️ lol
Yes, the better kind is! But I worry they will eat the kind made from styrene which is super bad for them. Idk why they eat it!
I'm so sorry about Marilyn. They peck and scratch their way into our hearts!!
Oh Dalia :) I was having an anxiety attack and I came here to hear your voice. It's soothing, and I love your Redneck AC for the girls 🐔 🐥
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Very helpful...thank you! I don't have electric going out to my coop but can put frozen water out there for them.
I'm so glad it helped!
In middle TN and I have been freezing all bottles and place them under their coop area - we built up so they would have access to a lower level for weather and hotter days - in front of box fans.
I use 3 gallon waterers that have lids (gosh I love them! SO easy to clean and fill up with the hose) so I place frozen half gallon jugs in them every few hours.
They also have a deep rubber feeding trough we placed clay bricks in (shady area) and refresh water in their 'pool' - the Juvies took to it faster than my OGs but now everyone is standing there on the cool bricks (chickens cool down by feet getting wet too thankfully) or sprawled out.
We just ordered misting tubes as my son showed me his set up for his turkeys and they love it with the chickens flying up and over to join in for a cool down.
While we planned out the run for sunny days in winter and shady areas for summer months, this heat is oppressive and I have several chicken mama's I follow on IG who have lost favorites in this heat already. So I have sun shade tarps coming Friday. Cannot hurt!
Yes, that should be very helpful! Good luck!!
Great ideas. Thank you, Madam President! I have a double-sided feeder that I've been piling with ice on the hottest days. It gives them a small cooling area and eventually turns to ice water. I want to try freezing some containers, too. We're lucky to have mature trees that shade the coop.
Sounds like a good plan!
it was 103 yesterday in Eastern nebraska yesterday. all my 25 hens were panting. They all definitely spent most of the day in the dirt 😂
They know it's cooler down there!! I hope it cools off soon. :-)
I wet down burlap and run a fan behind it here in NV. It’s worked pretty good so far. The “a/c” is great idea! Thanks!!
That’s a great idea too!
Styrofoam to chickens is like popcorn to us!!
I have insulated waters, change out in winter when frozen, in summer I freeze small bowls on ice and put in the waterer, I also found these 8 x18x2 in water totes, I freeze and lay on the floor of the coop, they sit on them or lay down next to them. Also for my goats I bought a ryobi fan which I freeze icecream buckets of water and put the in a 5 gallon bucket and I put fan in top of the bucket so it blows cool air. Plus I insulated the roof of the coop.
I just love you, your very informative and entertaining
Love you too!
Awesome tattoo, I'd like to get one of my beloved Kina. I miss her everyday. I've never experienced a love like her. We were so close that the moment she hatched, we became so close she was my little shadow. I watched her come into this life and I was there til the end. I'll always miss her 🥲
Absolutely love the hair, old school rockin tough guy look👍😎
Haha thank you. It's pretty glorious!!
Hmmmm. I live in SW Florida 95 degrees 90 percent humidity. Birds here that do not tolerate heat, perish.
A water mister hooked to your water hose will cool them too. Shade. Cool clean water. A fan helps.
I used to live in Florida and I loved the winters. Summer not as much but at least there's the beach!
I live in the mid-Atlantic and some friends out in the southwest are like blah blah blah 95 degrees isn't that bad it's 110 here...yeah ok but what's your humidity? 😜
That’s what I was going to say!
LOL right!!!
My husband and I are working to build a flock of our own along with a colony of rabbits to raise together in a racken house. We live in a little house on the prairie, our summers get really hot some years, and our winters can get pretty darn cold. I have always wanted brahmas, and my husband is stuck on buckeyes (for good reasons... mostly). I'm a little proud of the buckeye because it is the only breed developed by a woman, they are a great dual purpose bird which I need, the roosters aren't overly aggressive, and they love to forage. My husband pointed them out because there are only around 5,000 of them around today, and the roosters roar like a 🦕 🤣🤣🤣. I was leary to get them because I only live on a 1/3 acre lot, and I will have to keep them in a run so they don't get into my neighbors yards. Then, I started learning more about keeping chickens and decided I'm just going to build my compost pile in their run to offset my feed cost and give them something to forage in (I'll let them maintain my compost pile for me, I don't mind).That will also keep a food source at hand for the brahmas so I don't have any canabalistic incidents. A little part of me hopes I can breed a brahma sized buckeye so my husband can have a giant roaring chicken. Even though I live on the great plains, I cannot thank you enough for the information I have learned from watching your channel. I didn't know how much I didn't know about keeping chickens...
You’re so welcome!!
I have chickens and rabbits, too!! Specifically, angora rabbits and they are a large breed and can be used for different purposes!!! (Wool, fertilizer, lawn mowing and potentially meat and hides, but my bunnies are pets !!!). 🐰
@@smokymountainangoras Angoras are definitely on my list of rabbits I would enjoy raising. I would adore to raise some American Chinchillas but they are so hard to find near me. My sister in law raises Flemish giants, New Zealands, Mini Rex, and Champagne D'Argents, and I think our first breeding set may come from her. We're looking for different breeds because we want to do several things with them, including dog food.
I have 4 buckeye hens they are wonderful
@tanyadiaz2064 hi there. We are still waiting for our help to get everything situated. My husband and I share his fixed income currently, so ours is a slow process that we should have started ages ago. 😆 I would still adore to raise buckeyes, but with the cost of chicks, I think we're just going to get some local farmyard mix chicks once the yard is done.
When I lived in AZ I used a pot water catcher, put a large flat rock inside then piled high with a bag of ice. The chickens instinctively knew to stand on the rocks.
Thank you so much for making all of these videos they are so helpful and entertaining and make learning about how to keep chickens really fun I keep binge watching all of them!!
OMG the music with your sons hair 🤣🤣🤣👍❤
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those bags of ice would disappear in about 15 minutes in Houston, TX 5000 degree heat. I have to have multiple fans blowing on my birds night and day. I go out multiple times a day to give them frozen corn and cold fruit to keep them from dying of heat stroke...it is soooooo much work...but i love them.
It’s sooooo hot in Houston! I’m hoping the coolers would help them last for at least a little bit. Probably frozen gallon water jugs would be the way to go down there!
90 is hot for Michigan and it's been hitting that, I've been taking all my chickens inside our shaded pole barn and running a fan for them lol
Thanks for this video.
Where did you get your netting for the top of your run?
Omg your son is beautiful 🤍
Thank you! I got my netting off Amazon. It’s not available there anymore but I found a different one and put the link in the description. :)
@@WelcometoChickenlandia thank you so much!
I freeze grapes and peas the ladies love it! Your son looks like a future rocker. GREAT HAIR!
Thank you!
The way you edited clips of your son had me CRACKING UP!! He totally knew you were going to troll him 😂 You seem like the coolest mom ❤ Thanks for the tips. I’ll have to figure something else out for my situation in south Louisiana, but you are absolutely correct…. Heat is heat, and whether the temps are in the 90’s or 110’s, our chickens will be miserable. It’s not a competition over who lives in the hottest climate (I would happily volunteer to lose such a competition…sigh). I definitely recommend saving plastic bottles to freeze, the bigger the better! They take much longer to melt than ice cubes do. Very important when the temps soar and you won’t be home to replace the ice. And yes, styrofoam is the forbidden snack that chickens can’t seem to get enough of 🙄😂
I purchased a soap mold which is about 4x2x2 and freeze water in it. I put the ice in a shady spot and it takes about 4 hours to melt in 100°F weather which gets them through the hottest part of the day. I’ll also flood their shade area with the hose water. Lastly, I’ll give them frozen fruit to peck at or if they’re little blueberries they gulp them down quick. I notice very quick recovery with the last two tricks. They’ll stop panting after a literal minute and wander around like it’s not roasting out.
Love this!! I laughed when you said hotter than blazes lol I say that all the time! My mom says hotter than blazes. ❤🔥🤣
I'm so jealous of Henry's hair! It really is glorious.
I am lucky that our property is mostly wooded. Our coops and runs are in shade, and its always about 15 degrees cooler under the trees. We only have to employ additional temperature control measures on the few super hot days we get here each year. We wet down the run, put ice in their water, feed them cold watermelon, cucumber, etc. and I have a couple small fans to move air through the coops if needed.
Very lucky chickens!
The ice cooler is a great idea, and I believe that would definitely help, but I have a question about the misters or anything that would add moisture to the area. I'm sure what I'm about to say won't apply to every location, but it's something to take into account. Humidity. We have had two weeks during June and this week as well where we have been under a heat advisory. This week our heat indexes are 110F. With actual temps for a couple days of 100+ all other days are high 90s. Last week was the same, but we had real temps at 105F on one day. The high temps is one thing, but the humidity has been the killer. The humidity is so so high that the we're having trouble cooling off because when the humidity is too high your body can't evaporate the sweat.
We've noticed when the humidity is as high as it is, and we spray things down, while it's being sprayed it's nice, but once we quit spraying, that area is MUCH more humid and seems to be even hotter than before, almost sauna like.
If people aren't dealing with the humidity then go and spray areas down, but please take into account humidity.
Great video! I always enjoy them.
Thank you so much for this information. I recently lost one of my chickens to the heat and I am not wanting to lose anymore.
I’m so sorry for your loss!
Thank you. Her name was RoseMary. I call them the spice girls. All named after spices.
Besides Styrofoam they eat my Succulents. I would have never thought about some of the stuff chickens devour
It's wild what they choose to eat!
👍🌻 thank you for the info...and entertainment.
You are just too adorable! I love the tips as a new chicken mama your tips are so helpful. Thank you from 🇨🇦
I live in east Texas and it is HOT today. I work at a hotel over night, seriously considering filling a cooler with ice for my babies. I freeze blocks of ice in my freezer but I want more.
Oh Henry, can I have your hair. Awesome, treat it well. Blessings and thanks for the chick tips.
You’re so welcome!!
I run four fans with misters & put ice cubes in their water. I've brought them in my bathroom when it's been 105-110 degrees.
Freezing water bottles after this video.
We're spiking really high this week so I tried the redneck AC yesterday and my girls were so freaked out they all went into the coop and wouldn't come out until I removed it lol. I'm putting extra frozen jugs throughout the run and coop today.
I fill up old gallon vinegar or milk jugs with water and freeze. I rotate them out throughout the day after the ice melts. They also get ice water several times a day. They either drink it or stand in it to cool off their feet, whichever they decide to do.
Hmm might look o to solar powered fans and this. We had some hot days here already
Good idea!
My girls do love the ice! 🧊
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Great idea will be doing that next heat wave we have
I hope it helps!
@@WelcometoChickenlandia Sure it will mostly want it for my 5 year old hens they seen to have the most trouble in the heat
i add tall gallon jugs of ice to a plastic oil-pan filled with electrolyte mix and with a brick to stand on just higher than the water, so it's dry. I blow the fan right across that area and it feels like ac downwind. They love it! When the block of ice melts, I just swap it out. Mostly I find them sitting ON the ice-jug. I can't blame them. It's been beastly!
also i have the same mix in a big-dog 2 1/2 gal water-dispenser thing with a round basin that is the perfect size for a 32-ish oz plastic bottle of ice that I swap out a couple times a day. Thankfully I had that in storage for some reason for years. I couldn't afford to buy one at today's prices!
plus i have another fan where they like to dust (not so hard it blows dust though). When it's brutal I water the area around the coop and even (mostly accidentally) moisten the ground a little. I am afraid to get them wet. I've heard it's bad. But you have a mister, so I'm thinking a little is okay? If they choose it? They seem so clever about taking care of themselves!
i've seen them panting some, and an occasional fluffy-wing thing, but so far the evening comes before they really start to suffer. So grateful at the end of every day that we made it! They are only 11 weeks old so i worry a LOT.
🤣 when Henry burst on the scene. Too funny with the music. Lol... and I have a little beige pom like yours. She's the sweetest little thing.
What a beautiful tattoo! I’m terribly sorry to hear about your sweet Kiki. Thank you for the amazing redneck chi AC! Blessed Be
You’re so welcome!!
I noticed I hadn’t seen Kiki in the videos and wondered about her. She was my favorite too, so I always looked for her. So sorry to hear.
Was she a serama?
Awww I love your tattoo!!
I want one🥰
Thank you!
Thank you for posting this, I'll definitely try it. We had a heat spike a couple of weeks ago and one of our favorite chickens died in her run. We have a big fan for their run, small fans for ventilation in the coop, shade cloth, and plenty of water so we will try this next.
I had one collapse from the heat a few weeks ago, ice bath for the legs, electrolytes and a night in the cool basement luckily she recovered... Yesterday another heat spike I put shallow ice bath out and they took turns standing in it.. As well as I keep ice in their water.. And a fan. I feel so bad when they are panting hot.
@@kickstand7224 me too, it's terrible! Thank you for the additional suggestions! I have a tiny kiddie pool I may put out there for them to help cool them off.
@@mrsstephens2005 I have seen people use the kiddie pools,.. I use one of those low shallow storage totes.. I just started w enough water to cover their feet and ice until they got used to it.
In addition to shade tarps and sheets, fans, and frozen blocks, I spray down their entire shaded area- soak the ground daily. The ground stays cooler and the evaporation also cools them off. I had a chicken die before I started doing that but none since, even with higher temps.
@@debrawooding9842 yes .. I put shade cloth and tarp over the run
I love this little channel.
I'm trying other tricks. I hung a reflective solar sheet over the henyard. I only had one, but I had a DollarTree glittery holographic tablecloth and its underside reflects sunlight, too. It's lowered the temp several degrees. And my spaghetti cooker's steaming away on my porch steps. Hens love chilled 'sketti noodles! The noodles go right from the 'fridge and into my ecstatic birds.
Also, cut a few circular holes in the plastic sheet for rain drainage--straight cuts will tear, so I cut some halfcircles on the edges when it's folded. I forgot to do it with the tablecover, and at 6am I came out to find a huge holographic bladder hanging down about to burst! When I tried to make a small hole in it, the stressed plastic split open and soaked me with rainwater. Funsies!
I use the misters and freeze around 20 various sized plastic bottles. I put the frozen plastic bottles in their water buckets, and rotate them a couple of times a day. That seems to work pretty well for them. If it gets close to 100, I'll hose off their run also.
I freeze cottage cheese containers, and then I put the big fat Ice Cube in their water. They have a fan that blows on their nesting area in the coop. And we use misters as well! Great tip on the styrofoam. One of my hens was eating the styrofoam sheet that I had put in the vent on the house! So I covered it up with wood oh my gosh it's like a magnet they love styrofoam
Totally like a magnet!! Why Why Why? It can't taste good LOL!
My ghod, their lust for styrofoam is maddening! They can find it anywhere. I try to keep it out of their beaks--anything with foil, too. I had a little golden Comet who was an invalid, and my vet was baffled. When she died, I gave her a Viking funeral on cedar logs, and when I was collecting her ashes to put in a reliquary, I found strips of nibbled aluminum foil in her charred guts. Later I located the source--a piece of wood that I covered with foil to use as a shelf. I retired it to the garage, where Jeri found it. I could see where she'd torn off strips to eat them. WHAT THE HELL. It broke my heart to know how she got that way. I had no idea!
And I must add, thank you for the reminder. As down here in the South part of the valley it is going to be in the 90s next week! I just got the containers out they're headed for the freezer!
Great info, thank you! So sorry about Kiki.
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I get the Biggest Kick outta You Madame President!!
LOL thank you!
Love the video
I use misters too! They're wonderful!!!
90 is 🔥 lol, especially if it happens quickly like it has been. Drastic weather changes more and more :( hope everyone in the heat has a cool breeze to keep them company wherever you are
I hope so too! ❤️
It’s a 109 right now here in NC. I just finished cleaning my chickens waterers & put frozen water bottles in them. Most of my chickens are laying in the cool dirt under our deck & are having a dust bath. I can’t keep the water going with a hose for a mister cause our backyard faucet is messed up. I might have to try the cooler thing tho. I have 8 adult chickens free ranging in our big backyard & I have 4 young chickens in a big run with a small coop my husband built.
Good luck!! ❤️ Hope it helps.
Ive seen all your videos. My babies will be here in 2 days. I love your videos and educational advice. Iam totally prepared now. Ive been binge watching your videos for a week lol. I love you!
Aww thank you!!!
babies are here a day early. All 10 are happy and healthy and eating and drinking. Im so in love. I made an herbal mix to help calm them as I am big time into herbs and took the advice from your video. I was also a wildlife bird volunteer back in the day so Im familiar with sick birds and how to help them. I ope this knowledge comes in handy with the chickens if I need it. I love home remedies for example I use clove oil for a toothache works the best but tastes nasy lol. Have a good day god bless you hun!
Great idea! We’ve been putting ice packs in the coop at night. We have a small coop for our 5 chickies and last night at 9pm it was still 93 out! the ice packs really help at night when they’re in there for several hours. I keep a small light on in there too so they can find their water easily
Oh Henry! 😂
We have solar on top of the coop which runs 12 volt fans, bulb, and the coop door.
I lost my special girl Tikki 2 days ago due to what I think was a heat stroke. I am traumatized by this experience and I feel your pain when you talk about losing your favorite girl. I have been putting frozen water gallons around the run and coop for the rest of my flock but would also like to buy misters. Can you please share the link for those?
Thank you so much for sharing so much knowledge and kindness through your videos of chickenlandia.
Lol I just also wanted to say- our cold time is pretty much over here in good ole Florida... My feather babies were born early September so they've never experienced real heat yet and are temps are barely hot yet but they are roaming around panting like it's 150 degrees out already 😂... Lord help me. I keep telling them you all think this is hot???!!! Lol y'all haven't felt anything yet!! They have soooooooo much shade to be under with all of the trees and tarps over their run and house but they are already acting like this is the absolute worst heat ever!!!! So I will do the ice cubes in their water and grind up frozen veggies for snacks, and I love your a/c for them - I will have to make a couple of those to help them through. We get REALLY hot and nasty humid here. My beautiful fluffy silkie/buff orpington mix is the fluffiest and hottest 😢. He's so freaking amazingly gorgeous buuuuut all those hot fluffy feathers holy WOW 😮... I feel really bad for silkies in the heat we get here. I feel like they're huskies stuck here in the Florida heat. I feel bad. So I'm going to try to make him and all of them as comfortable as I can ❤.
I don’t know how fast the water moves through the misting tube but what about putting the tubes in the cooler with ice to cool the water down before it comes through the mister.
I bet that would work well!
It’s going for 102 here & we have a low power fan going over the ice water filled waterers& lots of shade for our chickens. So far it’s working. We have young Lavender & Buff Orpingtons as well as Partridge Rocks.
I've only watched a couple of your videos so far and I never realized you had a nekkid hairless! I have a Hairless Chinese Crested who's my baby!
Yes! I have one pure Xoloitzquintle and two Xolo/chihuahua crosses. And a poodle! 🤣❤️
Hahaha, Henry rocks! I dig his theme music. Your tattoo of Kiki is so sweet--I miss that little bird something fierce. Down here it's hot as the hinges of Hell! I'm spraying water on the shady spots to make them cooler. Each spot has cold water and a Corn:30 (a brick with a cob sticking out of the hole), with frequent lashings of chilled lettuce and grapes.
Sounds like a good plan!
i use a large fan in the coop... dont need misters in Florida though. i like the frozen water bottle idea.
I’m going to use frozen bottles inside the Eglu because, even with protection and shade most of the day, it’s already topping 80 in there! I did water the ground last summer and they laid down in the grass!
I have a mister but haven't used it yet. It's so humid. I don't want to make it more so. I have a 11 gallon water tank that I drop in a frozen 64 oz juice bottle( filled with water) each morning. They spend a lot of their time under the elevated coop. Unfortunately, I'm going to have to work on their run shade. The old tarp over their run died. I'll have to look up the frozen treats and maybe get a solar fan.
My son also has glorious, curly hair lol. I've always been jealous of it, mine is the opposite of his.
It’s been crazy hot and humid here in Georgia, temps are upper 90’s a few days of 100+. The humidity is so awful, my poor girls! I’m loving your cooler idea will definitely be trying it! I’ve been spraying down the run with water throughout the day, they have a shallow bin with ice water to cool their feet, ice in the water feeder and I freeze 2 liter bottles placed around the run and in the coop with a fan blowing. I lightly mist the dust bath bin, the sand stays a little cooler and my girls like to lay in there in front of the fan. I absolutely can’t wait until fall! Thanks so much for sharing all these great tips!! 🐔😍
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Thank you! I tried the mister but they hate it. They are scared of water. What does help is hosing down the run with cold water.
I do like the air conditioner idea. I’ll give that a try. 😊
Another idea I seen was making lily pads in the kiddy pools for them to stand on.
Also they love sitting on cold surfaces. I have a concrete bench they love sitting on after I spray it with cold water.
I might try hanging an ice bottle in the coop for the hot nights.
Thanks!
My AC quit this morning. It was 80f before dawn.
Yikes. I hope that gets resolved quickly!
Does the deep litter affect the temperature of the coop in the summer? I live in Texas with heat index of 109 today. I was considering doing the deep litter method but ow with this heat I’m worried it may make the coop too warm in the summer months.
Love your videos. You have encouraged me and made me feel so confident! Thank you so much for what you do!
Ninety degrees is hell hot for where I live.
Yes! It's all relative.
I’m in southeast Texas. It’s been up to 108 for the past couple weeks. My americaunas are very heat tolerant and are doing pretty well. Then I have a girl who is a mixed breed (Cochin and Easter egger as near as we can tell). She’s fully feathered, has a thick under coat, and even has feathers on her feet. She HATES these temps. She keep slipping back into brooding. I’ve bathed her in a kiddy wading pool, I’ve put fans in her for the entire day (for several days). At these temps, ice melts insanely fast. My next plan is to put her in a dog kennel and let her sleep in the house where the AC is on. At least she’ll catch a break overnight. During the day, she’ll still overheat.
I’m running out of ideas.
We put the frozen bottle water bottles in their water also to keep it cool. We also went to Dollar Tree and bought 1 gallon plastic storage containers and filled it with water and freeze it to let them lay next to it. They love it.
A separate ice maker or a freezer to make blocks has to be cheaper then the apparently6 a bag for ice these days
Thank you for all the awesome info you share!! We have about 3 week old chicks and I’m struggling with how to keep them cool in the later afternoon on days I have to go into the office. I work about 50 miles away from home so I can’t just run home at lunch. In the mornings it’s around 73 but in the afternoon it’s getting up to about 93 and my babies are panting. Any suggestions? Will it be okay to put a bottle of ice in before leaving for work? I’m scared they’ll get too cool in the mornings… HELP! We’re struggling!
Love Henry's entrance music!
Lol thank you!
We have 103 degrees so we have fans in Windows of chicken house. We are thinking about putting a air conditioner in for them if it doesn't cool off.
105 here with a heat index of 107 today. Water, ice, frozen veg, mist and shade. I wonder why their eggs don't bake before I collect them.
Anything over 78 degrees is insufferable. It’s been in the 90’s and humid here in KY, my chickens have been hanging out on our carport lol. They don’t like the fan, a couple hens got smart and learned to love it. I was dunking chickens in cold water last week if heat stress was apparent.
Great!! .... Me gusto tu xoloscuincle.
Thank you! I have two more that are Xolo/chihuahua mixes. :) And one poodle! Haha
I have a question that isnt about this video but ok😅 When do you put your chickens inside the coop? And also I love your videos and your positivity💫💗
90 degrees with Florida humidity feels like 102 degrees. It's Hot.
It is relative . I am in NH. 90 is very hot to me.