On 07-1495, KATHY JOHNSON wrote to ALL:
 KJ> The poor baby Jenday--I can't get her brooder cool enough. It's
 KJ> 92.5F in there. She's 5 weeks old, 1/2-way feathered, VERY heavily
 KJ> down- feathered, and is panting big time. Her appetite and other
 KJ> behaviors haven't yet been affected, but I'm constantly worried that
 KJ> the heat will spoil the food in her crop. I have tried putting a wet
 KJ> towel over one side of the brooder and blowing a fan gently across
 KJ> the towel, hoping to make some cooler air as it evaporated, but it
 KJ> didn't seem to help--it's too humid. I'm watching her closely to
 KJ> make sure she doesn't get sick--there's not much else I can do.
A wet towel just makes it worse ...consider that the heat index goes up with 
humidity ... that's the major reason YOU felt uncomfortable.  If you were to 
wrap ice in that towel with a fan (slowly) blowing thru it, it would be 
cooler (thermometer temp).  The humidity created by the melting ice would 
tend to counteract the feeling, but on balance, the baby would feel better, 
drafts excluded.
For your basement, might I recommend a dehumidifier?  I now have one and it 
does wonders!!  We keep our basement closed as much as possible and the 
dehumidifier took out 4 gallons of water / day over this last (wet) heat 
spell.  The tempeature was at least 10 degrees cooler and with very low 
humidity it felt like 20 degrees cooler.
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