CHICKENS AND HOT SUMMER DAYS

How can you help your birds beat the heat? Some online articles have pretty strange recommendations about things you can do for your birds in the heat. Let’s face it, ain’t nobody got time to be making frozen blocks of treats, nor will your birds really know what to do with them.

Speaking from experience with doing freezer clean outs and giving the food to the birds, they don’t touch the stuff until it is thawed anyway.

So, keep it simple. Open the doors and windows of your coop for air flow. Provide shade options (I have shade cloths over each run).

Provide multiple sources of water and free-choice feed. If your coop is a portable one, try to park it where it will be in the shade during the hottest part of the day.

Most importantly – leave them alone and don’t stress them out. They’ll find the cool spots in the coop or run and do just fine.

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