Chat
Joe, if I were a faster seamstress, I would sell goat earmuffs. If nothing else, they're funny to look at! 
I thought I'd share what I've done to help insulate the PolyDome shelters I'm using for my goats. They're bedded down thickly with straw, and I put an unopened straw bale in the back of each one to give the goats something warm and solid to put their backs to at night. It also makes a fun "king of the hill" game inside the shelters and helps keep the dominant goat from blocking the doorway. Doesn't work for Cuzco--he's too big to stand on just one hay bale, and too tall when it's inside the shed--but it works for the girls. And more goats in the shed = warmer shed.
I've also been piling used bedding against the outsides of the sheds and packing it down to insulate the lower walls. By the time the goats have pawed through it and trampled it down, I'm out there dumping on a new load. I usually try to do this right before a snowstorm, and once the snow piles up on top of the old bedding and the roofs, the sheds are mostly buried in an insulating layer that lasts as long as the cold weather.
I thought I'd share what I've done to help insulate the PolyDome shelters I'm using for my goats. They're bedded down thickly with straw, and I put an unopened straw bale in the back of each one to give the goats something warm and solid to put their backs to at night. It also makes a fun "king of the hill" game inside the shelters and helps keep the dominant goat from blocking the doorway. Doesn't work for Cuzco--he's too big to stand on just one hay bale, and too tall when it's inside the shed--but it works for the girls. And more goats in the shed = warmer shed.
I've also been piling used bedding against the outsides of the sheds and packing it down to insulate the lower walls. By the time the goats have pawed through it and trampled it down, I'm out there dumping on a new load. I usually try to do this right before a snowstorm, and once the snow piles up on top of the old bedding and the roofs, the sheds are mostly buried in an insulating layer that lasts as long as the cold weather.
