cure in hot weather??

[handyman]

hi

i live in pakistan. weater is now getting hot its start of summer here. temprature will rise up to 45 celcius in peake season. i have my teils and budgies in out door aviary. how can i cure my birds form hot weather.

what is the best season for breeding tiels and budgies. can i breed them in summer by mentaining temprature or humidity.

regards
hammad

[JoT]

I don't have experience with this but I agree shade and water are the most important. And plenty of both! I'm sure someone with experience in outdoor aviaries will help.

[Merkuri]

Originally Posted by ParrotletLover

Perhaps a fan nearby to help keep the temperature down...

A fan won't help birds much because they don't sweat. Fans only feel cool to us because the motion of the air causes the sweat on our skin to evaporate faster, which takes heat away with it. You ever notice how a fan feels cooler when you sprinkle water on your face? That's because there's more water to evaporate and it's taking more heat with it.

Birds don't sweat, so they have no moisture on their skin to evaporate. Maybe if you fanned the birds after misting them a little it would work. All a fan does is move air, it doesn't alter the temperature.

[ilaurya]

Hi,

I'm not sure who all is aware that 45 celsius is 113 degrees Farenheit, but at that temperature, I can only recommend bringing them inside. If you must keep them outside, shade is needed, and there should be some way for a part of the bird area to be at least 10 degrees (celsius) cooler. My personal idea would be to have a fan blowing air through wet strips of cloth in the shaded area. That would help to cool the air.

[Peregrine Harlequin]

If I remembered the conversion correctly, 45 Celsius is about 110-115 Fahrenheit. Just so all the Americans know how hot that is....

And if I didn't take so long to type that in, it wouldn't be as redundant.

[Merkuri]

Originally Posted by ParrotletLover

Actually, I have friends and a vet who recommends keep a fan by the bird. It does keep the temperature down. Perhaps not on the bird, but it does cool the enclosure/environment in which the bird is in. With a lower temperatures comes a cooler bird.

No, a fan does not cool the area. Put a thermometer in front of a fan. You'll find the air temperature is the same as the still air away from the fan. Moving air does not make it cooler, it only makes it feel cooler to us. To actually decrease the temperature of the air you would need something cold, like an air conditioner or ice. If you put a bucket of ice in front of the fan, then yes, that would cool the environment. Otherwise all you're doing is moving hot air.

One of the rules of physics is that energy can neither be created nor destroyed. When you cool things down, the heat needs to go somewhere. When you use ice, the heat goes into the ice, causing it to melt. When you use an air conditioner, the heat comes out the back (usually outside your house). Where does it go when you use a fan? Nowhere, it stays right where it is, in the air.

I'm not a vet, and maybe a fan does have some benefit, but a fan by itself definitely won't cool the air.

[Merkuri]

Using a fan with wet strips will cool the air, for the same reason a fan cools us (water evaporation). Was that the experiment you did? A fan by itself won't cool the environment, but a fan with wet strips of something tied to it will.

[ilaurya]

Originally Posted by Peregrine Harlequin

If I remembered the conversion correctly, 45 Celsius is about 110-115 Fahrenheit. Just so all the Americans know how hot that is....

And if I didn't take so long to type that in, it wouldn't be as redundant.

That's ok, Luke! Better that two people speak up rather than zero! :-)

[Merkuri]

That's odd. Maybe I am mistaken. I'll have to look it up.

No, I was right. Fan's don't cool rooms. Here's a link with a quick, simple explanation (basically what I've already said): http://science.howstuffworks.com/question22.htm

[Amanda]

I live in Australia and we also get very hot and humid summers and are always loking for ways to cool down the birds. One idea is to double roof the aviary. So put another roof at least 20-30 centimetres above the current roof (I am assuming the roof is tin). As tin gets very hot when the sun is on it, this keeps the direct sunlight off the tin and keeps the aviary cooler.

I am moving soon and could not afford a permanent structure that would then have to be pulled down, so I hung shade cloth over the cages.

Another thing you can do is in the hottest part of the day (if your home) hose the tops of the cages down and the birds. They will also like a shallow dish of sme sort that they can splash in.

Hope some of these ideas help.