[TheForge] OT: Goats moving North was: The perfect score?

[Jerry Frost]

Our little goats do fine in the cold but we do turn on a heat lamp around 
zero. A lot of folk around here don't though.

Frosty
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Meadow Lakes, AK.

From: "Steve Smith" <sos at alum.mit.edu>


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> Justin Fellenz wrote:
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>>   How do the goats do in the cold, by the way? We've been hearing that 
>> you can stick em in a barn with a light burning. You're colder up there 
>> than we will be in Kamloops, BC., though. Getting close. We move in may. 
>> Then it's shop building time.
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> We moved a couple of years ago from Loveland, Colorado to Brownfield, 
> Maine with some Nubians, Alpines and Angora (all full sized goats). The 
> Nubians don't like the winters up here; we've lost a goat or two each 
> year, all Nubians. The others seem to do just fine. We don't have a light 
> burning in our barn.
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> Steve