Today’s Run: 5.20 miles

Oh, the weather outside is frightful!  Not the “Winter Weather” that we associate with that song, but the toasty, humid weather of the South-Eastern part of the United States.

I must admit that today, on the whole, it really is not that “hot”~it is only at 95 F. presently and the humidity is low!  It is surprising pleasant out there.  BUT~the chickens are uncomfortable.  They are panting and holding their wings out away from their bodies.  I need to do something.

As you know, I take frozen water bottles out to them when it is uber hot. Today does not qualify.  It is just moderately hot and I do not want to baby them too much or else when the super hot weather arrives, well, they will be toast.  And we do not want that.  What to do…

First of all, I have a frozen ice cube tray filled with unfiltered apple cider vinegar.  This fulfills three purposes.  1) An apple a day keeps the Dr. away.  That means they get the benefits of eating apples from the apple cider vinegar.  2)  The apple cider vinegar keeps away mosquitoes.  Hence no larvae in their water supply and 3) It cools their drinking water for them!

Secondly, I have a frozen ice cube tray filled with apple sauce!  They love anything apple!  The frozen apple sauce is a great treat.  It is healthy for them and it cools them off in this moderately warm weather.

So, today I have happy chickens.  Two apple treats:  apple cider vinegar and apple sauce.  What more could a chicken want!?!

This is a pic of Sarge (Drill Sargent) in the foreground and Jeff (Mutt and Jeff) in the background enjoying their frozen apple sauce.