Hot, Hot, Hot!

It's so hot!

I don't want anyone to think that I'm complaining because I love the summer when it's not raining; but the ladies are not so impressed.

We've had lots of dust-baths and we've put a blanket over the roof of the run to give them a little more shade and Emma's found a tip on t'interweb that if you fill a bowl with iced water and put fruit in it the chickens will effectively bob for the fruit and it cools their wattles and rehydrates them at the same time.

This worked well on Monday except that not all the fruit floated so there were some grapes sitting at the bottom go the bowl which they wanted...

So they just tipped the bowl over and fished the fruit off the floor. D'oh.

Yesterday Emma tried with peas..

Unfortunately the same thing happened but it took a good few hours for them to get bored of dunking their heads in anyway so it seems to work.


What shall we try today?....