Texas can be brutal with heat. Hitting 97° today here. I have 3 solar powered fans coming in today for my coop. It is meant for a 245 square foot area, so it will hopefully have no problem with cooling them down.
Texas gets plenty of sun, so solar powered fans should be good!
Wow! I have never seen one with such a long beak! Good to know that this is not the only chicken like that. Maybe this chick was disabled in a way and then dumped by the person who owned it?
I have never seen a chicken, or chick with such a long beak. Doesn't look like the beak of any maran, RIR, golden comet, orpington, sexlink, wyandotte, etc. that I have ever seen.
And the fact that it has nothing like a comb is weird. Do you think maybe he came from some kind of breeder who...
I don't know if I would say smarter- they are just closer to the gaps that they sneak through, so they know their limits better than we do.
I would say they know more about what they can/can't do than we know of what they can/can't do.
I would say that judging by all the not smart things...
I have fence secured to the ground outside of the run along the perimeter. I personally used dog fencing as that ground protection because it is strong, durable, and the chickens aren't coming in contact with it so they can't get hurt by it. That is what I would suggest.