Poultry and extreme heat

Sarah Hunter will discuss how extreme heat can impact poultry and the techniques available to actually reduce temperatures through garden and free range design, as well as the short term practices that can be adopted to rapidly reduce heat impacts on chickens in an emergency situation. The concepts to be discussed include: how heat affects chickens; design techniques for poultry cooling; preparing your space for summer; and ‘instant’ techniques to cool your chickens during a heatwave.

The workshop will also look at an establishing new orchard space on the farm where they are putting in place methods for heat mitigation.