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08-01-2018, 07:42 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-01-2018, 08:06 PM by blackie's maiden.)
From Texas...heat hauling a real problem here.
We inherited a "backseat air conditioner hose" when we bought our truck camper. Already everything you need. Look them up. They have a ring generally that hooks right into one of your a.c. exhaust vents inside your truck. The hose can then vent the cool air thru your back window into any container in the pick up bed for your goats.
If you are into constructing things yourself, I would recommend wood painted white instead of metal. Yes, more maintenance. But wood insulates to some.degree.while.metal conducts heat.
We built a goat carrier on top of one of.those little landscape flatbed trailers like.Home Depot sells. Wood, painted white, with small 3" round holes.all along top and bottom. Taken from suggestions on venting greenhouses, that is, equal or almost equal venting top and bottom, the thing stays amazingly 15-20 degrees.cooler than the outside temperature. It sure doesn't look like it would, as it is far less.venting than a standard livestock trailer but it does. Also this way goats.are.still protected.from most road debri that becomes airborne and might penetrate the large slats in a standard livestock trailer. Since the Rendy we finished it with 14" storage.space on top and.replacing the too small 12" tires and fenders with 14", safer and smoother for longer trips. The second top also helps insulate.
Needless to say we still check on them every time we stop to make sure they still have water and are not panting. Never have panted.
Before we came up with our.current trailerwe would buy a 20 lb bag of ice.and.throw in with Blackie for him to lay on. Makes a big difference but would only work on short trips and close monitoring.
I will try to post some pics of our rig we built probably tomorrow.
We inherited a "backseat air conditioner hose" when we bought our truck camper. Already everything you need. Look them up. They have a ring generally that hooks right into one of your a.c. exhaust vents inside your truck. The hose can then vent the cool air thru your back window into any container in the pick up bed for your goats.
If you are into constructing things yourself, I would recommend wood painted white instead of metal. Yes, more maintenance. But wood insulates to some.degree.while.metal conducts heat.
We built a goat carrier on top of one of.those little landscape flatbed trailers like.Home Depot sells. Wood, painted white, with small 3" round holes.all along top and bottom. Taken from suggestions on venting greenhouses, that is, equal or almost equal venting top and bottom, the thing stays amazingly 15-20 degrees.cooler than the outside temperature. It sure doesn't look like it would, as it is far less.venting than a standard livestock trailer but it does. Also this way goats.are.still protected.from most road debri that becomes airborne and might penetrate the large slats in a standard livestock trailer. Since the Rendy we finished it with 14" storage.space on top and.replacing the too small 12" tires and fenders with 14", safer and smoother for longer trips. The second top also helps insulate.
Needless to say we still check on them every time we stop to make sure they still have water and are not panting. Never have panted.
Before we came up with our.current trailerwe would buy a 20 lb bag of ice.and.throw in with Blackie for him to lay on. Makes a big difference but would only work on short trips and close monitoring.
I will try to post some pics of our rig we built probably tomorrow.