Keep Your Chickens Cool During the Summer
1) Provide an escape from the sun with shade, shade, and MORE shade! Just like everyone else, chickens need shade too! If your chickens cannot get out of the sun, they do not stand a chance.
2) Keep the air moving! Setting up a fan in the coop can help your chickens tremendously. It will cool the surrounding air and reduce humidity.
3) Provide easy access to cool water! Be sure to not have water in direct sunlight but rather in the shade.
4) Ice Ice Baby! Put out frozen gallon jugs, blocks of ice, or toss a bunch of ice cubes into a feed pan. Chickens will place themselves close to it to keep themselves cool.
5) Last but not least FROZEN TREATS! Watermelon is the perfect summer treat for chickens! It’s wet, mushy, cold, and tasty! They’ll enjoy eating it, and they’ll get a hydration boost from the melon’s high water content.
