Samssimonsays: Blazing Acres journal

[Ferguson K]

I don't DO cold. Anything below 50 and I'm freezing.

 

[NH homesteader]

Yeah... I melt above 80 degrees so this weather actually works better for me... Weird right.

 

[TAH]

If I could have it 50-60 all the time I would be the happiest person alive.

 

[Bruce]

You would have to fight my wife for that title @TAH She wouldn't complain at all if it were always between 50F and 60F. Now DD1, she wears a hooded sweatshirt in the house when it is 68 because she is cold.

 

[samssimonsays]

@samssimonsays do you give any supplemental/different feed in the winter to help your goats stay warm?2 of my 6 just look like they're freezing! The rest seem fine. And they're not my oldest or youngest, so no real reason why they would be.

I give beet pulp pellets, calf manna and alfalfa pellets with their sweet feed and hay. Otherwise, nope. Mine are all fine and then when they see me start shivering.... rebel got a little skinny when he was getting bullied by the bigger goats and is now in a stall next to them to give him his own food and hay. He gets a lot more right now to help bulk him back up quickly as he needs it desperately. I have debated getting him a dog coat to help as well.

 

[samssimonsays]

I am usually sitting at work in my 70* office with my heater on under my desk, sweater or long sleeved shirt on with either my jacket or another sweater on as well and I'm still chilled...... I don't do cold well. I'd love it at 65-70* all the time lol.

 

[NH homesteader]

Aww poor dude! I've got girl drama in the doe pen. Perhaps the shivering is more of a poor me mom, I'm freezing! Lol

 

[samssimonsays]

Aww poor dude! I've got girl drama in the doe pen. Perhaps the shivering is more of a poor me mom, I'm freezing! Lol

My buckling was in with the girls..... The smallest doe is brutal to him (he's smaller than her) so she picks on him and the other Alpine doe does too. Ugh. My alpines are kinda jerks.... The rest are all Nubians or the one is half nubian.

 

[Goat Whisperer]

Good alfalfa hay is great for them to keep warm in my experience.

When it gets really cold I'm known to give the girls a "midnight alfalfa snack".

 

[NH homesteader]

It's not all alpines! Lol my mini alpines are so sweet. My Nigies are bullies! My Nigie herd queen has adopted one of the mini alpines as her own haha but she is beating the snot out of the other one.ugh!