How to Help Chickens Recover From Heat Stress After a Hot Spell
The heat came the second week of July and it didn’t leave.
Not the kind that breaks by suppertime. The kind that settles over a county and stays, until the ground quits holding any cool at all and the nights stop offering much relief. By the fourth day the flock had gone quiet in a way that had nothing to do with contentment. And here’s the thing most folks have backwards: the work to help chickens recover from heat stress doesn’t start when the weather turns. It starts the morning after, and it runs about six weeks.
Here’s how that stretch goes.