B&B Happy Goats....journal

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Miss @B&B Happy goats,

You might want to consider a swamp cooler (evaporative cooler) anyhow. I know people claim that they don't work in high humidity, but my mom's parents had one when I was a kid in NE Texas, where it got hot and humid, and it still cooled the house. Maybe just a fan with a mister attached to the front would work well enough.
 

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That is what I meant when I mentioned the swamp cooler -- put it in the barn to cool it there. But swamp coolers aren't cheap (except compared to air conditioners ;)). However, misting fans are relatively cheap, so maybe a couple of those might do the trick. We had misters under the patio cover at our house in McKinney. That combined with the large fan really cooled it off. It also got just about everything damp or outright wet!
 

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It would vary. It would tend to be a bit drier than in east Texas and in Florida, but it could get quite humid. The dry line in Texas (where moist air from the Gulf meets dry air from the Rockies and plains) tends to be between Wichita Falls and Childres, though it can move west or east of that line. For Miss @B&B Happy goats, it would almost certainly be more humid than it was in McKinney, but I think the misters will still work. One rather inexpensive way for her to find out would be to either buy a misting fan (such as this one at walmart https://www.walmart.com/ip/NewAir-A...utdoor-Oscillating-Misting-Fan-Black/43380699 ) or a misting system (such as this one at Lowes https://www.lowes.com/pd/Orbit-Low-Pressure-24-sq-ft-Residential-Misting-System/1000033065 , which I think is the one we bought for McKinney). If it works, especially the misters together with the overhead fan in her barn, it can make it quite a bit cooler.
 
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