5 Ways To Keep Chickens COOL In HOT Weather | Caring For Egg Laying Hens In Warm Climates | Poultry
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0:00-0:29 - Intro
0:30-1:34 - Signs Of Overheating
1:35-2:49 - Frozen Treats
2:50-3:39 - Cool Water
3:40-5:24 - Restrict Movement
5:35-7:08 - Thrive Market
7:09-8:59 - Coop Airflow
9:00-10:59 - Emergency Air Conditioner
11:00-11:30 - Final Thoughts
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I just lost my favorite chicken friend Penelope from the heat yesterday and I’m heartbroken. Some of things I do already but I appreciate the additional tips which I am starting today.
My solution was to add a window AC unit to the wall of the Coup! It works really well!
I use my mother's trick: lay a soaker hose on the top of the chicken coop roof. Run a trickle of water through the hose. The water cools the roof and drips off of the lower edge of the roof. In your coop, the hose would create a steady drizzle in front of the hardware cloth door and evaporates the whole time. We were in Texas, so it was dry. Basically, you turn the coop into a giant evaporative cooler. I don't know if it would work as well in Florida or someplace more humid. But when it's hot and dry - it's perfect! It only takes a few gallons at a slow drip to keep them cool all night.
I'm in Texas and thanks for this comment
You may have saved the life’s of my chickens with the “chicken air conditioner”, I did all the other measures but had not seen this tip. I’m located 17 miles north of Mexico and it has been over 100 F this past week and will continue in to this week. Already have the Home Depot industrial fan and just put water jugs in the freezer….thank you!
It’s been 100 plus for over a week and tomorrow is suppose to hit 115… I’ve been hosing down the run 2-3 a day, also freezing water bottles and adding them into their water container (with electrolytes)and of course frozen melons. We have a fan on the outside of the coop trying to keep the air flow going in the run. The top of the coop is open and covered with hardware cloth for circulation. Short of running A/C in the coop I think we have done all we can. Fingers crossed they all make it through this heat wave! Thanks for the tips 😉
we lost a lot of birds this year in texas. my friend who owns a feed store told me to add a fan and misters that run for 30 minutes 3 times a day. 12, 3 and 5. it got my gals through months of 100 degree dry temps. lots of deep shade helps too
I like to run the hose on a slow drip or trickle in a low spot in the shaded part of the yard. My chickens love to walk through the cold water puddles to cool off.
My dad installed a small fan in our chicken coop because it was over 100°F in the coop before the fan. Now, when we turn the fan on, the coop cools off a lot faster. Also, sometimes I lock our chickens outside and I gently hose them off. They really enjoy that
My chickens heat water whenever they’re out free ranging and it starts to sprinkle they head for the coop area
Chickens regulate their temps by dusting. Wet feathers make it harder for them to do. Shade, cool water, dusting is what they’re need.
Our chickens like to hang out in slightly dried out mud muddles and to stand in the kiddie pool that is filled with a couple inches of water. When the temp gets above 110 we have a dog kennel in the house or the glass enclosed shower so they can be in the air cond
I spray them with the water hose, also I give them cold watermelon and watermelon rinds around the heat of the day.
I just tried misting my chickens and they literally started screaming🤣🤣. I mean I stood really far away and everything. My girls are so dramatic😂😂
@@junereilly6938 my young chickens don't like water sprayed near them either so i just spray the dirt down in their run.
I did lose a beautiful Silkie to heatstroke last week. I am using the frozen jug of water for my two remaining girls that are outside. I also put an ice cube in each water dish (a 3" auto-water cup) plus some in the 13 gallon container. 3 other Silkies had to be rehomed because they turned out to be roosters. Now I've got 4 one-week-old bantams growing in the garage because it's not really good to only have 2 chickens. Chickens are very social. The babies are doing okay, although I keep a close eye because at times they are panting. I keep dipping their beaks in water when I see that. Because I live in SoCal, my coop is inside the run. The entire plywood shed roof is elevated on sticks with chicken wire over the open flat part (as secondary predator proofing). Not only do I have the top open, but there are vent windows near the top of the back side, and the front is a double set of double doors. The inside set are hardware cloth screen doors and the outside set are plywood doors. The plywood doors stay open 24/7 unless there's a storm. It's heartbreaking to lose an animal to the heat, but it does happen. Mine died in the middle of the night.
We put a sunshade up to give the hens a bit more of a break - the afternoon heat was just radiating off of the garage creating a tunnel of heat between the garage & coop. So the sun shade was VERY "cheep" and made a big difference.
Hello Oak Abode. My favorite method of maintaining a sustainable pantry and stockpiling items long term for the whole family and the family dog and the family cat is what I consider to be the most practical, utilizing every type of food storage methods and technology available, both old and new. . Except for the fruits and vegetables that get canned, I keep perishable items like meat, poultry, fish, fruit, vegetables and dairy products in the refrigerator on a short term basis until I'm ready to use them for a big family meal - and for even longer term sustainable storage, a large separate freezer, which can store a half side of beef with plenty of room left over for homemade ice cream etc. . I'm considering upgrading to a walk-in freezer at some point.in the near future, if my plans to open a bed and breakfast come to fruition. Sometimes, however a nice round of cheese can do well for quite awhile on a pantry shelf at room temperature - and doesn't mind even if it has to stand there alone. Store bought canned goods get shelves.in the large pantry closet - several for canned meat like corned beef hash, spam and sandwich spread and another for canned vegetables Bread, rolls, grains, homemade pasta, cereals and the like are stored in special humidity controlled bins I order from Amazon Prime - which usually get delivered to my doorstep about an hour after I order them. . Stuff from the family garden and orchard, like onions, bell peppers, tomatoes, cauliflower, cucumber, pumpkins, carrots, corn celery,, potatoes and yams, cherries, blueberries and strawberries get canned in Mason Jars and stored in the cool, root cellar of this wonderful rambling former farmhouse (circa 1867) I share with my extended blended family and several rambunctious dogs raised on table scraps from the some of the finest food from a plethora of sources both commercial and home based. . There's even a special separate "summer kitchen" which I converted to store butter and ice cream churns, pots, pans, utensils, extra storage containers, foil, bags, cutlery, and other meal related accoutrement. Out back in the woods, just beyond the big pile of wood I maintain all year, (for use in an antique woodstove I keep on hand, in case the power goes out) there's even an old rusting vintage still where my great grandfather made some of the finest corn whiskey for miles. Next to it is the rusting hulk of the Ford Model A he used to transport that powerful hootch by the light of the moon on soft summer nights to his eager customers in a tri-county area. Further into this verdant forest of mostly sycamore, oak, pine and scrub, runs a cool stream into which I occasionally cast a rod or net to catch some Brook Trout, Bluntnose Shiners, or whatever takes the bait (just earthworms for the most part). And yes, hunting season means wild turkey, deer, and even an occasional wild boar. Next week, I'm planning on filing for a permit to 3-D print a smokehouse in order to be able to create gourmet artisan handcrafted, beef, bacon, turkey, and beef stick jerky, which interested local merchants can private label for other people to share with their families and their family dogs. Unfortunately, I had to break the bad news to my free range hens today that due to expected egg shortages regretfully numbered are their days of laying a couple of eggs and then basically taking the rest of the day off with ranging privileges' within the parameters of a few very nice rural acres - parts of which are rich with fat grubworms. There's even a short dirt road between the main barn and the farmhouse which they're free to cross to get to the other side as often as they'd like. My rooster Ben overheard me and he ain't too happy either, knowing full well that due to oncoming egg shortages, he'll be "workin' overtime to make sure there's plenty of eggs for the family and I
All good tips and tricks. But if you're going to the trouble of hooking up a fan, why not just get a mini personal A/C unit and set that in there?
In addition to these things we put drip line in our coop with the fan sprinkler heads about every 5 ft, the drip timer goes off at 1pm so hottest part of the day they all get misted and the ground gets cooled off. They’ll all run and do a cool dust bath right after. On the drip line i also put other sprinkler heads that shoot a stream and drilled holes holes in the sides of 18-20” plastic pot bottoms that also go off at 1pm with the sprinkler system and fill up with cold water and create a cool shallow trough for them. There scattered around and they like to stand in cold the water. If you install the drip- just make sure u run it for a while as the first water to come out is hot from the sun
I'm very new to all this. I understand the fan and frozen water jugs inside the coop, but I was thinking of putting a misting system in the run. It would be in the run right? You dont want water running inside the actual coop right?
Thank you for this video! Some of those I didn’t think about. I live in the desert and some additional things I’ve been doing are hosing down their run, a baking sheet full of ice cubes, and then the Bundt cake mold filled with treats and water then frozen. I can hang it from the roof of their run.
I like the Bundt idea!! I’m going to try it summer 2023… thanks
As always another great video!
My girls are still really young and going on 10 weeks. I gave them a partially frozen watermelon that got to cold in the fridge and the girls loved it. It's still hot here but not extreme like it was a month ago.
I will definitely be using these tips next year.
We built our coop under a nice shady tree in my backyard. Having shade makes a big difference in hot temps.
We do everything that you’ve suggested and so far it’s worked to keep our chickens alive. This is our first year raising chickens for eggs and we are in learning mode. Our next challenge will be how to keep them warm in the winter. Thanks for your informative and educational videos. Love your channel! ❤️
I mean, I keep extra 5k btu window units. For the disaster situation. I’m going to have a side like yours with the water and be prepared to turn the AC on super low.
Great tips 👍
It's 105° all week here in Central TX and we are just getting started for summer.
I like to get ice cube trays and put a little bit of corn or peas in the tray and then fill it up the rest of the way with water. Then I freeze it and then when you pop out a cube it will be frozen with little veggies in it. Thay love it! 🐔
I must have smart chickens. They don’t free range until it’s overcast or no longer hot. They hang around the misters and around the shaded areas. Good for my chickens💕🐓💕🐓💕🐓💕🐓💕🐓🐓💕
Hi! Love your channel! I freeze solo cups of water to put in their water it tends to keep the water cooler longer than ice cubes. I also switch out a couple frozen jugs each day during the warm days. I don't think it's that much extra work...you get into a routine. I absolutely adore my girls and would be so upset if one died because of something that I could have done that takes an extra 5 minutes. That said, we are fortunate enough to have a fridge/freezer in our garage, and does help a ton...since I don't like to mix our stuff with chicken poop😂 I am currently having an issue keeping ants out of the feed...it's in a metal container. Any suggestions?
Sit the container on bricks in a pan of water. Ants don't like to cross the water. I use this trick for cat bowls. Keeps the ants out
I just found your channel today and I am so grateful for these videos! I have 2 Easter Eggers, 2 Blue Cuckoo Marans and, as of last night, 2 Silkies.
The next 3 days we have over 100 degree weather and I have to commute 2 hours away, so I am stressing. They will have multiple gallon jugs of ice scattered around but no electricity for a fan. They do love sitting around them though. Also my son will set a hose mister before going to his college classes. Fingers crossed my 4 year old girls do well.
I always see people on the forums giving their chickens frozen corn. Frozen corn is a huge no no in the summer! Corn makes chickens generate heat and should only be given in the winter/fall. It can make an already bad situation much worse.
When we go through heat waves I give my girls frozen peas, carrots, grapes and watermelon, and I put electrolytes in one of their many waterers.
Also, if they’re showing signs of really struggling I’ll fill up a tote with cool (not cold/freezing) water and I’ll dunk the girls one by one up to their armpits. But you have to be carful that it’s not too cold or you could give them a heart attack. On the days when I know it’s going to be extremely hot, I’ll fill up the tote in the morning and leave it in the sun so it’s the perfect temperature by the afternoon. Some of them love it, others not so much but it helps a lot. I also do this right before bed with my big bottom girls 😆
I have a fan on 24/7. Live in southern Va. was 100 degrees most of the summer. I have the fan sitting on a tote on the outside of the enclosed run. I place a frozen milk gal of water in front of the fan. It blows cool air into the run . Works great.
Great tips thanks for sharing! I live in Georgia, it’s been crazy hot. My girls love watermelon and does help keep them cool. I also give them a shallow bin with water they like to walk in to cool their feet. I put frozen water bottles in to keep the water cold. Btw, love your coop! 🐔
Thank you for this video. We are learning a lot.🎉 We recently got 8 baby chicks and I am excited to get them in their coop soon! 🐔🐣🐥🐓🐤
Omg love your silky! This video is so helpful because I needed to find how to cool them off during summer. I love chickens one of mine sits in my lap.❤
Perfect timing for this vid! Thanks!
I run a garden hose on the ground. Enough to pool and water the area. The Rhode Island Reds will dig and eat cold dirt for hours. lol
Mine do this too! I didn't know it was an actual thing for Rhode Island Reds to do! Haha Do you know why they do that?
I'm going to letting a water hose slowly drizzle in an area today and see how it goes. Thanks for commenting, I've learned something new about my chickens.
Also, my chickens prefer the powder from their food rather than the whole pellets. Sometime it didn't seem like they were eating enough so i would crush some up and they'd go crazy. Is this a thing too or are mine spoiled? Haha. I stopped crushing it up cause after all if they are hungry they will eat. Hard not to spoil them though since I only have 2.
I live in Central Florida and it gets pretty bad here. With some shade, cold fresh water, a mister with a hose and frozen treats they do pretty good making it through. I definitely keep them restricted in the summer vs the winter. They just pant way too much. It's always a challenge here. Thanks for sharing your tips ❤
This was so informative. Thank you!
Great tips! Thanks!
solar fan on the roof with a thermostat to start it, don't have chickens but it works in the attic
The pecking order in our little flock has made "restrict movement" essential during this heat wave (102°), because our egg-laying hen is bossy and territorial (she will even knock our rooster off the windowsill 😂).
Even during the night ,temperatures are around 80°, so I put a frozen jug in each coop & they sleep next to it. I freeze bottles of water and poke tiny holes in them so that the frozen water is dripping into their regular drinking water throughout the day, I keep a shallow tray full of water as well.
I don't really like it because it looks janky, but I have an oscillating fan with an extension cord blowing between my three coops and the chickens are all making good use of it and it makes me very happy. They are still panting unfortunately because the humidity is so bad I think, but I check on them every 5 hours.
There is a fancier "emergency AC" tutorial on TH-cam that shows cutting a hole in a *cooler*, filling it with ice, and then putting a 4" duct + fan so that you can control where the air goes a little better, and I'm going to try that with a couple of styrofoam coolers since I don't want to destroy my plastic ones.
Anyways that was my essay lol, one of our hens died from stress and the incoming heat so I am all about keeping the ones I have now safe ❤ these birds were kind of dumped on me so now I want to make sure they're okay
Love all the tips did not know about tip 5 thanks for the update
Love you and your tips!
Your channel is awesome, thank you
Very nice tips ❤❤
I keep a rotation of Frozen water bottles. I change the water in my waterer a couple times a day and I put water bottles inside there as well, like giant reusable ice cubes!!
My chickens run across the yard from shade to shade.
Trimming flight feathers also helps. It stops them from flying out and it keeps them cooler.
I'm new the chickens I have 7 and it's around 95 this week and thank you for the good advice
Add frozen bottled water to your waterers. It has really helped mine. In summer months or hot days, we add them in the waterers and change about every 3 to 4 hours as needed. Put it back in freezer. We do this during hot days and no longer have any problems with our chickens getting overheated. They always have "ice water" and they also have a fan in the corner of the coop on high up in the ceiling as it is large. Anything for my feather babies. Hope this helps someone. Keep your freezer full of frozen water bottles.
We're in Arizona and were above 120 F for a few days this summer. We have an emergence AC in the coop, During the day we run a mister. We also make sure to give them a foot bath during the day which is a tub with a few bricks inside. We fill the tub with ice water and the chicken stand on the bricks to cool their feet. Once a day they get cold treats (frozen watermelon, cold cucumber and fozen peas are favourites) and we try to provide shade with shade cloth. That being said the heat in AZ is brutal during summer and even with all precautions we lost one of our young girls a few weeks ago which made me really sad.
What no sprinkler, no water slide, no misters? LOL good tips
I love your channel! Thanks for all the advice which I have been going through. I live in Texas I'm about to get four Australorp chicks. I have a Hodik weather station which can have up to 3 relays that record the temperature around the place and I can view on the monitor in the house with a push of a button, and plan to put one in the coop so I can monitor what is going on in there. I also have two small portable, rechargeable battery powered fans which I think will help in the heat of the summer, as well as having got a well ventilated coop. I hope that will help to a large extent!
Put a fan in our coop window blowing air out of the coop. Which pulls a lot of air into the chicken door. Has worked great.
Thanks
Hiiiiii! I'm sooo excited to have found you!! We live in the same state 😁
My hubby and I just started our first chicken flock. They are quickly approaching 3 months old. We have 3 Browns (dunno what kind of brown lol) and 3 golden laced wyandottes.
About 3 days ago, we noticed some had their months open. Not held open, more like a yawm....I guess. Do chickens yawn?? I have gotten mixed answers. Please help lol.
Thanks! Dawn
Lost 4 today! Getting on this tomorrow.
Love your videos. My chickens love grub Tera. Learn something new on every video. I’m in nj. Like 20 minutes from grub Tera I also have my Owen black soldier fly bin. Chickens love live BSF!
I've installed a mist system. Keeps area 20 degrees cooler than th outside temperature.
Add a mister to your irrigation system on timer. Evaporative cooling can be gre
Keep it up ma’am
My run is 24 feet long, I keep about 6 feet in the shaded part wet with cool water, the girls love it, they will bed down in the damp earth
I cut grapes in half or quarters so there is less chance of them choking.
Nice
Just love you. So adorable and cute
How about putting ice cubes in there water pan. I have seen them sitting in there water. TRY?
Watermelon!!!!!!!!!! 🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉
Love your chicken videos! I am collecting materials & ideas for a chicken tractor now. I've been into a simple/healthy lifestyle since I was young & I'm finding alot to be thankful for in your videos.
I went to Thrive-Market at your suggestion & found it wayyy over-priced -- am I missing something? I've been buying organic/healthy groceries for some time now, but wow!
I'm considering an A-frame chicken-tractor for my first structure for strength & simplicity. What does everyone think? Is that a practical way to go?
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Frozen corn or other veggies
N Texas here. We list one of our 6 chickens to heat😢. We have a roofed run and installed misters. The rest have done ok.
114 today where I am.
Same. Its been like that a week and into next week
Now is electrolyte water also a good idea atleast I have around like 10 water buckets for all of my chickens & they do get it kinda dirty & is a coop better off ground or on the ground
i like chickens.
Thank you for this information... MAY BE A SILLY QUESTION BUT I owned horses and my last 30 yr old passed so i have a stall that i would like to turn into a chicken coop.. my question is are flies a major issues, I ask that bc no matter what we did fly mask,spray my heart would break knowing how annoying it was for them.. Yes stalls were cleaned twice a day... If so do you have any solutions
Im gonna have chilled & heated water for my birds…it will be on my TH-cam channel…like how i cook the daily feed daily…is already on my channel.
Also ill have circulated heat and cooling.
I have an open air coop that works for us. Its been 115° all week here and there is no way me or my neighbor could keep our chickens in an enclosed coop where we live
I use electrolytes in the hens water, made for chickens.
I always wonder are chickens & cattle part of the design
What are the purple stalks behind you. So pretty
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I got 1 cookoo maran that pants a lot more than the other. Even on roost bar at night with coop temp in 70’s. Thinking she may be drama queen or real issue?
You can drop one of those frozen gallons into their water bucket too.
I was thinking of putting solar coop fans in our new coop i have had chickens for about 7 years but i really need a new one oh the emergency air be cool i have a pet pig fixing to build him a new house and put air in his house
Thanks buddy cheers Ricky 🕺💃🎶🎵🐈⬛🎸😎🐓👌🦃💦
No roosters? Do you have any bantams?
I spray a section of their cage, not coop down with water as well as putting a cat box tub full of water I . I’ve seen them try and bath in the west direct and walk in the tub.I’m in California and we just went thru a 2 week period of 106+ temps. Gruesomely frustrating. I only have 3 2 year olds but they all made it….
I had bought 2 chick's, and kept them in my home for 4 months, and I put them out in my wood barn, and 4 days later a Mom bear ripped the door open and along with her 2 cubs ate my chickens. This made me very sad. I'm not going to raise anymore.
I'm so sorry! Our dog killed one of my hens and some feral cats got in and killed my precious rooster😢
How about a bear rug?
I wet a portion of the ground and sometimes they immediately dust(mud?) bath in it, they immediately go to it.
it's over 110 here been stressful they're only 6 weeks but they're m7ch happier outside. I give them electrolytes and ice water regularly. I freeze a whole bottle for them and rotate it. they like frozen grapes once they realize what it is, frozen canned corn top
You keep saying HOT WEATHER.. and Maybe I missed it.. (Sorry).. but WHAT is that HOT weather temp? that is too hot for the chickens??? When should I start worrying about the temp? I know it kinda varies by the breed of chicken.. but.. on avg?
My chickens wont eat watermelon even tho its really hot. why is that?
Mine won’t either, but love frozen blueberries
Mine won’t either, but love frozen blueberries
FYI my chic's get diarrhea with grapes 😕
I wish I could be astonished by how many people have lost chickens due to heat stroke but I should know better by now. Step 1, plan for all weather contingencies and take appropriate steps, including if you have to house them inside a basement or other structure. It's nauseating that this happens, you have a responsibility to take care of your animals. If you don't like it, too bad, grow up.
Chickens are jungle birds just plant trees
How about a mister in the run? Never heard about getting our chickens wet, except silkies
The chicken that droops her wings before the other chickens is not a "drama queen". That chicken is more sensitive to the weather which may also go to an underlying health issue.
Let them eat first. Only 10% of snacks ever. NO APPLE SEEDS , Cut off excess flying feathers & Water misters ( In Front ) of fan.