Excessive heat warning (over 110° )

Heatherhurley

In the Brooder
Jun 17, 2024
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So I have 3 turkey poults, and hoping(there pipping as I type) 3 turken mix chicks. I just finished up making an INSANELY large brooder in my run. It’s calling for 105-110 in town for the next week. I love west of town and it’s always about 5° hotter so I’m looking at 110-116 all week.
My router is made out of three-quarter inch plywood. It does have a large panel on the front that is open and it also has 2 inch holes that I drilled with a holesaw three on each side to promote airflow through there, covered in wire, of course.
But my question is, will they be OK in that heat or do I need to keep them inside? I don’t have a brooder inside.
So they live in my spare bathroom in my bathtub, which as you can imagine, gets very stinky very quick. It’s a small bathroom. Also, the birds are just noisy and like I said it’s huge.
Almost 7 feet long, 3 feet wide and 2 feet tall because I needed it to be a grow out pen as well ( my turkeys like to eat the baby chicks)
 

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They can't regulate their own heat that young so you'd better get something going for them besides 110F right out of the incubator. They will be suffering in that heat worse than an older one.

We put horse bedding pellets in our coop and brooders. There is zero smell with those.
 
yeah id keep them inside with that kindof heat .. if the older ones dont have some deep shade they can get in back under some trees or something id set up a sprinkler to mist an area even for them ..
 

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