What did you do today?

[hihobaron]

Hello All
This is to all you folk with HORNED Goats.
My two old boys are dehorned, the 2 bucklings born in March Alpine X Saanen have 4-5 inch horns already.
It has been hot here the last couple days 90+.
My old boy's ("Colored" Pete and Sam) have taken to laying in any shade they can close to me after a cool morning of turn out browsing. The old boys were panting in the heat in the shade.
The new kids (White) with horns were ok when they came in just panting a very little bit.
I Felt their horns and they were hotter than the body temp. So all of the above has proven to me that goats do use the blood supply to the horns as a way to radiate body heat. Granted the White coat may have helped.
But they were in the same shaded woods as Pete and Sam.
Proof by feel.
Happy Trails
hihobaron Blizzard, Fuzzy, Pete, Sam and the Troops in SC