Housing Goats in Extremely Hot Weather

[Dave-Trinity-Farms]

Ill be putting up some large piece of think garden fabric tomorrow over a patch of green weeds tomorrow for the milkers so it will shade the area over the cooler green weeds. Hoping this will cool from below and shade from above. But other then good shade and water, they just kinda have to tough it out. But if it make you feel any better because they are out in it as it gradually heats up from moving to afternoon, its not nearly as bad as it feels when you go out from an air conditioned house. Ill be working in this stuff all week and it works the same way. I dont really feel the heat till over noon.

If they will allow it and the flies dont bug em to much, I kinda like the mister idea. Here though the flies would just be to awful as they love to go after wet anything but wet goats would be like a homing beacon.