Keep those chickens cooled off today!!

[DonnaBelle]

We are at 116 degrees in the shade here today.

I have a sprinkler going out in the chicken run. It sprinkles back and forth under the shade tree in the run.

It seems to be helping the girls out some.

I am sooooo sick of this horrible heat here this year. But I have A/C my animals don't so I've been going out and checking on everyone, goats, dogs and chickens. Everyone is getting a spray down.

To heck with the water bill, may be back on here begging for donations. LOL.....

DonnaBelle

 

[Bedste]

I was thinking about buying some of those misting hoses and placing them on each coop.

 

[Goatherd]

It's been hot AND humid here...very unbearable. Fortunately, I'm surrounded by woods and the chickens, duck, geese and peafowl hunker down in the woods for the day and no one is to be found until the sun goes down.
I feel for all the animals that have to deal with this heat and drought (in some places).

 

[DonnaBelle]

We've been turning on a sprinkler in the chicken run about 1:00 pm that shoots up into the big pecan tree in the chicken yard. We let that run for about 2 hours. It makes puddles under the tree and just generally cools things down a bit. The chickens love it!!

We are supposed to cool off down to 100 Monday night. Doesn't that sound weird??

We've got a big fan mounted high up inside the chicken house and a floor fan sitting low. So plenty of ventilation.

The heat has really affected egg production. I'm getting about 1/3 of the usual output. Poor girls.

Ninety degrees would be heavenly....

DonnaBelle