OK, I did a few experiments with my Wyndottes.
Tools.
Kitchen floor, tiled.
Kitchen floor, Nice fluffy carpet.
One fan
four 2 liters bottle of ice.
My chickens preferred the kitchen floor over the carpet while hot.
Chickens liked the carpet when fan was blowing across it.
Chickens left the carpet and back to the floor when I moved fan to tile.
Conclusion: Moving air makes a difference.
4 bottles of ice moved about the floor and the chickens would congregate near them, no matter were they were.
I also took a couple of computer fans and stuck them under my foot stool were they couldn't get to the fans but got a "Draft" from underneath. They hung out near the foot stool.
I was going to try to mist them, but they had already dropped mines all over the floor and I didn't need anything else to slip on.
Mike -- USA zone 6b. 8 Chickens, 2 Rabbits, 2 Ducks. Spell check brought to you by the Greater Oklahoma-Arkansas Higher Learning Center. Helping inbred, snaggle-toothed idiots for over 100 years.
On 7/28/2010 8:38 AM, Mark Greer wrote:
Fans do cool chickens and are a vital component in broiler operations in the south. They also use misting and cool cells along with some other tricks to keep the chickens alive in blistering summer heat in the south. I raise some broilers each year and they do much better in August with air moving through their pen which is outdoors but under roof. Shade alone is not enough on a still, hot, humid day.Mark
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