Do This to Keep Chickens ALIVE in a HEAT WAVE 🥵🐔❤️
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- Henlo! I am The President of Chickenlandia and I want to welcome you to Chickenlandia, a magical place where my pet chickens (and a few ducks) live an awesome life. Did you know that summer is actually WAY more dangerous for backyard chickens than winter? Here's how to keep them safe from overheating or even heat stroke. Hope you love it! #chickenlandia #welcometochickenlandia #petchickens
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Electrolytes!! It's what chickens crave.😁
With water, like from the toilet!
@@WelcometoChickenlandia @Green Dream Project You two just made me squirt off-brand Dr Pepper outta my nose!!!
South Mississippi here. I purchased a misting system to hook to the big shop fan that I have blowing on my red leghorns, but then I read where the misting could cause serious respiratory issues for my girls. I resorted to simply wetting down the run area on a daily basis. That works well in concert with my big shop fan.
Dear President, thank you for the info-tainment. I’m a full time travel agent in Saudi Arabia, once I go back to Pakistan on my annual vacation, I’m seriously thinking to start my own chicken-farm and become self-proclaimed President of my “newly-formed state.” Wish me luck!
God bless you & best wishes to you.
Hahaha I love it! You have Chickenlandia's full support lol.
I noticed in the winter when I would take the water container out of the coop to clean and refill, if there was any snow on the top, they would eat it. So it got me thinking I could make them a cucumber ice slushy because cucumbers are a natural electrolyte. I also like giving them frozen corn which they love, I’ll probably freeze up small cubed watermelon because they love that and tomatoes. Love watching your videos to get great ideas, I have a few other ideas I’m going to try for their outdoor area this year so I’m excited.
Great to get this message out there - first time chicken owners ask us all the time about keeping them warm in the winter and we spend most of that answer talking about summer heat instead.
Summer can be tough for sure!
I lost my two favorite roos yesterday to the heat! I'm devastated.
Oh no! I'm so sorry.
I’m loving every moment of synth in this video 😎
Gotta keep the eighties alive! Lol
Thank you for this. I live in the Midwest and we are in a heat advisory. I did many of these things to help my girls, but spraying down an area with water was pure relief for them. They were apprehensive at first, but I found my small flock nestled in the wet grass shortly after. They looked more comfortable.
We have many many trees on our property and our chickens love the shade. Yes ventilation is important m, love your coop my dear it’s adorable. Good information my dear, thanks for sharing. Many blessings
Thank you so much!
One day I'll have some leghorns, some RIR and maybe some Australorps. This is great information!! Thanks, Madam President.
You are so very welcome! Leghorns are awesome. They get a lot of flack for being crazy but I love them!
I lost Sunflower. I have only 3 chicks now. I miss her. LOVE YOUR VIDEOS LADY PRESIDENT
Oh no. I'm so sorry. She was such a lucky chick to have you as her human.
@@WelcometoChickenlandia thank you. It still hurts
I'm in Southern California so I have to spoil my girls.. Besides everything you said they have two fans, and one is a misting fan. It really keeps them cool so I say if you can definitely buy a misting fan. ❤🐣🐓🐔
Ahh yes I was going to mention that but then I decided not to since it won't really work for people in more humid areas. But I think in the desert it's awesome!
I'm so glad my girls have lots of shady places. It felt like 100° this past week!
Oof that's hard. The heat is no joke!
Dust Bath-sand mixed with Diatomatoes Earth...
Blessings to all!
Once again, thank you for the information.
You’re a good egg. Pun intended.
Yep, for sure! I have my 1st broody hen right now, it’s been in the 90’s this week, I had to force her out of the box yesterday, my poor baby. I also did the frozen corn homemade treats, it was fun!
Good for you!
"...get a kiddie pool and fill it up; it needs to be really shallow..."
I simply love your videos. 💕
Aww! Thank you!
Loved the music in this one, fantastic tips as always!
Gotta keep the eighties alive!
Great video! Your videos always make me happy! This video cheered me up so much because sadly one of my girls Pablo passed away today due from a hawk. I miss her so much.
Aww I'm sorry.
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Great video my friend! I always used to sprinkle water in my backyard to keep my flock cool. And I've dug some area for dust bathing too! All the chickens become friends for some time when they are dust bathing 😃
Haha right??
@@WelcometoChickenlandia yes :)
Love the background music reminds me of the 80’s...lol. Thank you for the educational video...you inspired me to order a shed as a chicken coop.and will work on the upgrades to it. We put ice cubes in our dogs hot water. Will do same with chickens...✊🏾❤️❤️❤️✊🏾
Chickens must love Gatorade.
Electrolytes are what chickens crave!
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We just moved to Arizona a year ago and this is our first time keeping chickens so everything, for me, is on a learning curve. So far I think we're doing OK- we haven't had any losses, though people nearby have been complaining about losing hens from the heat already. I have a sweater box "pool" I fill with water once in the morning and once at some point in the afternoon. I add frozen vegetables to the afternoon refill to help keep it cool until sundown. I also soak their feed, and I freeze it so 1- they're less likely to kick it all over the place, and 2- it helps keep them cool throughout the day. I only do this stuff on days that it's over 100 though. We put up tarps over their run and shadecloth on the sides to try to help keep the sun off them and everything else. Finally, I come out and hose down the run in their favorite spots so they get that "evaporative cooling" action going. It was still 100 degrees last night at 8:30... I keep my fingers crossed that everyone makes it through to fall OK. So far so good. Come on monsoon!
It's seriously tough for people who live in areas where it gets so darn hot! My sister lives in Texas and unfortunately she lost a hen to heat stroke a couple years ago. :-(
Where abouts in AZ are you from. I am looking for some Chicken friends here. I live in New River. This is my first year having chickens here too! It's been challenging. I've lost 5 hens to predators and heat this summer already.
@@forrestloy4243 We lost 3 to heat this year. We're outside Tucson.
I lost 3 to heat this year in South Texas when we had 2 weeks straight of 115F every day.
I came close to losing Barred Plymouth Rock pullet yesterday.
We got the poor thing out as it was almost passed out inside the coop. Took her inside the house and filled a container with cool water (not cold but cool). While holding her, I put her legs in the water and then kept splashing it on her underside. Eventually she came back around, and I put her at a bottom of a deep laundry basket and left her there until sundown.
After sundown we locked up all the other chicks and chickens inside their coop and took the overheated girl home (she was in a currently vacant house on out property ). At home she got food and water and got to sleep in an air conditioned environment.
By morning she acted normal and rejoined her clan.
To fight the heat, I give them cool water at least 2 times in the afternoon and also cold watermelon 2 or 3 times.
I put ice into they water too.
Heat is really tough on the chickens. I am glad that I own a business and am near them throughout the day.
well good thing i live in a cold climate
Good stuff as always. I really like the idea of spraying down an area to give them a cool place to hang out. That would work great in our jungle run. Looks like we are going to start seeing more sunshine. Woo Hoo!
Yes it will be great in the jungle run!
My Easter Eggers are the first ones to hang their beaks open! Like at 70! They look like it bothers them the most.
Thank you so very much for your awesome help!!
Thank you!
You’re so welcome!
Great tips, they really do love that fruit.
Oh yes they do!
Great video and really useful info. Thanks. 🌼🌻🌺🌸
Thank you! Does it get really hot where you are? I don't think it does but not sure?
Saw a dust bath with frozen bottles of water with 4-5 chickens cooling down
Great information on handling hot weather challenges.
Take care and stay safe,
Rob
Thank you!!
So many great ideas! Excellent video! 💚
Thanks so much!
A friend of mine puts Organic , frozen peas and carrots out in the afternoon - evening to give them a treat and cool them down .
My chickens love frozen shredded zucchini
June 2022 is hellish in Georgia! I'm keeping my birds cool any way I can. Goldie's under a mulberry bush with her 4 chicks and an old fan to blow their buttfluff around. The Deathlayers are in a shady pokeweed grove. They have water and food, and every so often I bring them iced greenleaf lettuce and grapes. When it's brutal, I dunk 'em in a washtub so their body fluff soaks up some cool-ish water.
I think a commentor posted that cooling a chicken quickly by dunking in water could kill them. It's something I've heard for the first time and need to confirm. But it's worth it to be sure we keep them safe.
@@winniecash1654 You're right to be careful with your birds. I should have been more specific than describing the water temp as "cool-ish." I NEVER dunk them in a cold bath--I make sure the water is just a little cooler than the ambient temperature and lower them slowly into the bath so it isn't a shock. The cooling comes not from a sudden lowering of temp with chill water, but from breezes blowing through their dampened feathers. I only resort to this when they're experiencing distress from unusually high heat.
@@Susie_Floozie got it. That makes sense. Thanks for being specific.
@@winniecash1654 I should have been specific from jump on that! My bad--thanks for giving me a chance to fine-tune it. Also, I dipped the three grown hens and skipped the li'l fellers. At two months, I thought it'd freak 'em out. They did okay staying sprawled right in front of the fan. Hahaha, and I thought it would scare them!
I'm so bad, I would hook up an air conditioner and a fan for them.
We have a mister system for our birds. At first they stayed away, now they either dig around in the wet dirt underneath it, or they find the dry patch in the shade nearby that benefits from the evaporative cooling. We live in the desert where the heat can get up to 115 degrees easy. Love the water bottle idea!
I also use a Misting system. it is wonderful. I don't turn it on till it's 100° but they seem to love it.
I think the number one consideration is where you place your coop. I purposely placed my coop where it would be shady in the summertime. I wasn't worried about the winter cold but I was worried about the heat. I have still lost two chickens to heat. our temperatures here vary greatly throughout the year from anywhere from 10° below 0 to 112° above. on really really hot days I turn on the misting system but I also hosed down as much of the area as possible including the coop roof.
Great video, my chickens love watermelon 🍉! I was wondering if a fan in the coop or vines growing on top would help at all?
I think both would definitely help!
Welcome to Chickenlandia I’ll be sure to add them then, and maybe get a vine that beats fruit the chickens can eat so when they fall from the roof they might fall into the runwhere the chickens can eat them.
I keep my chicken in a basement and although they have little natural light or direct sunlight and although I have four windows which ensure good cross ventilation, in the summer it gets quite warm down there... So, I give them lots (and I mean lots! 10-15 Kilograms at a time, for about 70 chicken) of watermelons, melons, cucumbers, tomatoes, lettuce, cabbages, cauliflower etc Besides, even if not fermented for several days, almost all the crushed wheat, barley and corn they eat is given to them after soaking in water... And, the water containers are washed and refilled with fresh cool water every day. For additional electrolytes, besides those they get in the vegetables, I give them about 10 Kgs of boilt potatoes 2-3 times a week, which I boil in water with salt and soda...
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The heat can kill your birds. I got a baby pool with just a small amount of water. Put some treat in the middle to encourage them to stand in it. I put fan in the coop and outside the coop. Shade
Yes! Keep those chickens happy. You need chicken A/C. :)
For real! haha
Great vid😁😁😆
Thank you!
thx for your vids :)
I went to bed when I woke up it was hot and I lost one chicken😭😭😭😭
Oh my goodness. I'm so sorry!
No Black Australorp?!?? 😲
Where? In my flock? Or do you mean I don't mention them as heat tolerant? They are pretty heat tolerant.
Welcome to Chickenlandia Nah I was just surprised you didn’t mention them.... that’s one of the reasons we got them here in Texas....at least that’s what we heard. Thanks for the wonderful content... keep up the great work!!
Thank you so much! Black Australorps are awesome. 🐔🐔🐔
Hope you don't mind me butting in. It's been 2 years and we're having horrific heat in Texas.... I'm curious how the Black Australorps are holding up ?
Almost done building my coop, then gotta work on the run, but how my future hens will make it when it's so hot has been troubling me.
I've given up on the fancy plans I had & just want to Make sure I pick the most heat tolerant breeds
Any advice is appreciated
My chicks are 5 weeks old and we are having 104 days. I've read they're too young for seeds and corn but could I make little ice cubes with their chick crumble?
I would concentrate mainly on keeping them hydrated. Make sure they have plenty of cool water to drink and get an electrolyte supplement for heat waves. Watermelons, grapes, cucumbers are your friends! In moderation, of course. You can also wet their feed (only give as much as they will eat in a day) or ferment it. :)
Awesome ideas! Do you chill the fruits and veggies first for them, or is it more just about hydration?
You can put them in the fridge for sure! But either way is fine.
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How much do you feed 2 hens? Will be getting my first two soon and the fermented feed looks like the way to go.
Probably a cup. Just see if they want more or don't finish it all. I'd suggest strongly getting 4 birds. One always ends up dying and with only getting 2 if one dies you have a lone bird and they can't be alone. N then you'll have to get a new chick n young aged birds n mature birds do not get along well.
I have read sooooo many guides to this and from what I've learned, cooling chickens off fast is really bad because their body temperature is naturally between 105 and 107 degrees Fahrenheit. I will give my girls room temperature berries as a treat but I'm not doing the frozen stuff anymore. The only other thing I have going in the shaded area under the 3' off the ground coop is a cheap box fan that doesn't put off much air. It's more for keeping the ground dry to avoid coccidiosis. From what all I've learned, chickens will adapt to the conditions they're in, provided the owner picks the right breed for their environment. I love your videos so much and am a new subscriber but some of these methods might not be a good option for folks and may actually do harm to their flock.
Thank you for your input, Heather! Certainly you are correct that lowering a chicken's body temperature fast is not advised. A lot if time, you see people recommending dipping chickens in ice water to break their broodiness. I don't advise this at all. It's just plain not good for them. However, putting frozen berries in their water during a heat wave shouldn't lower their body temperature in a significant way. Mainly, it encourages them to drink the cooler water so that they stay hydrated.
@@WelcometoChickenlandia you are pretty darn awesome lady! The simple fact that you respect different ideas is so awesome and makes me love your channel even more. You are up in the northwest, right? I'm in the mid Atlantic and we deal with horrible heat and humidity, along with hurricanes and wind driven rain events so I'm sure that chickie care can vary depending on environment. Thank you so much for your super supportive and open minded reply. I am subbed and selected bell for all notifications because I can't wait to see your channel grow into the thousands. I love finding small sub channels and then seeing their growth. You, my dear, are going to do so well! ❤️❤️❤️
@@CarolinaGirlCreationZ Awww thank you!!
Very gold vid! I have chicks from 3 weeks old, they are on wood shaving But they seem to eat them.. is that bad?
It's not good for them to eat wood shavings. Are you sure they are eating them or just pecking at them?
Welcome to Chickenlandia pretty sure they eat them, so I changed it with a towel again... altho A towel is not Nice, Because gets dirty Very fast. What do u suppose?
@@joachimdekimpe2778 I watched a whole lot of videos on this when my chicks were young. There is other bedding you may use, look it up. I don't remember otherwise I'd let you know
I water my chickens in a 5 gallon bucket with spouts attached. I put 3 bottles of frozen water in the bucket 2-3 times a day to keep the water cool. I don’t drink hot water, why would my chickens? Same thing with my dog. My Great Pyr gets ice bottles in his water too.
Chickens can swim! At least some of the natural breeds.
Most cannot, you have to do see research
@@catherineb6889 Seen it with my own eyes!
@@pseudopetrus it depends on the breed
@@catherineb6889 Agreed!
Can I give my 3 week olds fruit water?
Do you mean like with frozen fruit in it like in the video?
@@WelcometoChickenlandia yes!
Baby chicks get chilled pretty easy. Instead of giving them anything frozen, I would just make extra sure they have clean, cool water at all times. You can give them pieces of cucumber and watermelon as well! Just not so much that they are not eating their feed. Fermenting their feed is a great way to get more hydration into them. :)
@@WelcometoChickenlandia thank you so much!!!
My chickens that have big combs and waddles do better in the heat. I got a Delaware not taking the heat into account. I have to watch her during the heat of the day.
I have two polish chickens and was getting 6 eggs a week from one and 5 from the other the one who lays 6 us older about 1 year and recently went broody but only for one day then she stopped and the other mysteriously has. Why do you think that is? Thanks
I'm sorry, I'm not totally following the question. One was broody for a day and then stopped and now another one is broody?
@@WelcometoChickenlandia sorry for not making it clear :) both my polish were laying a lot of eggs one went broody just for a day then stopped laying (this was about a week ago) now the other randomly has stopped. Why?
@@oscarsbackgardenbirds7460 Ahh I see. They will definitely stop if they go broody and it might take a bit for them to get back to it. Is it hot?
It's around 18°c
Oscar's Back Garden Birds thats not too hot. Any disturbance can result in a break in laying. If anything has changed for them recently, even the one going broody, it could cause a pause.