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Post by quambie on Jan 9, 2010 14:47:19 GMT 8
Hi all we have just had our third day of over 44, how are you all coping with the heat. A while ago I put a retic system all over the chook runs and now its paid off. I am glad I did it when I did. I have had to run it three times a day while its like this. Lucky I have not lost any of the babies I have. but they do have there own fan system on the go just as well Trev
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Post by lakelands on Jan 9, 2010 15:55:09 GMT 8
Hi Trev, ' I know what you mean. Eventhough we are in Gnangara and it's always a few degrees hotter here than the registered temp for Perth. This last week we have had pretty much every day over 40. Not as hot as your place but still not very nice for the chooks. I have basically let most them of out to free range (so no pure breeds from this place for the next month or so) and have been turning the sprinklers on several times each day (bore) the poor old chooks line up under the sprinklers for a cool down and fluff them selves up to get maximum water in. I also have sprinklers running over the pens and shed to coll down inside for those ones that I can't let out. My chook runs are in the orchard so there is plenty of shady trees for them to escape under Funnily enough even though I have several different breeds all running around the yards together the little breeding groups seem to stick together except for one naughty speckled sussex rooster that seems to like trying to steal every one elses girls. So far I have not lost any of mine either. The only ones that seem to be struggling with the heat are my Faverolles...
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Post by ashley on Jan 9, 2010 19:38:59 GMT 8
I've been doing a stealthy day time water too, no bore here so I don't think I'm meant to but I can't stand seeing them with their mouths open and wings out... the girls and the chicks all like to scratch in the wet ground, I'm sure it makes them feel better.
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Post by fluffychook on Jan 10, 2010 8:24:11 GMT 8
I put bowls of water out with paving bricks in them. They stand on the blocks and this helps cool them too. Some people put ice in their water, I also dampen down soil in the shade area's so they can dig up moist soil. I also have some retic running in their pens and turn them on a couple of times a day for 10 minutes.
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Post by annieyokie on Jan 10, 2010 10:57:42 GMT 8
I put the retic on to 10 mins at a time as we have few trees in there freerange areas . Iv put up a Sun unbrella ,Table frames (side of road chuck outs and now dump pickups)covered with bambo fencing Iv also put hay on the tin roofs of there pens and covered it with bamboo fencing to try to cool the tin and cool them down in the heat of the day. More work on them than around the house at the moment ,got to keep them happy and cool . I like the bricks in water idea Fluffychook .That will be my job today.
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Post by quambie on Jan 10, 2010 20:48:16 GMT 8
At last we have a break in the weather, we will have about 30 degrees thank goodness. I can see if I can rescue anything in the veggie garden, but the chooks will love the change, even the young ones will love it. I have watched them in the heat and to my surprise there a lively lot chasing a small stick around the brooder I had to rescue one it would not feed it cheeped and wanted any of the others to feed it so out came the tweezers and a bit of boiled egg and in no time at all it was off feeding on its own and now competing for anything it can get dont you Just love them
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Post by linda29 on Jan 10, 2010 23:22:54 GMT 8
We put up a piece of spare shade cloth tied each end with lenghts of rope to the poles around a section of the run. Like a pool sail in a DIY way and wet it down and the chooks love sitting under it with water dripping down on them. Cheers linda
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