Do goats sweat?

Ah Emily, just think of it as keeping your body nice and clean with all those toxins pouring out ha! Nothing like milking a hot goat in a hot barn in the middle of July!

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Their horns act as radiators to dissipate body heat, at least until the ambient temperature gets above their body temperature. That's why you don't remove horns from cashmere or angora goats.

My goats also feel "damp" on hot, humid days. Our yearling calves sweat really bad in the evening on these 90-100 days. It's beading on their short coats.

My mule hardly ever sweats - only during extreme exertion (running a long time when the temp is way up there).

My kitten sweats thru his foot pads - only cat/kitten I've ever noticed. His little feet have been quite damp during this weather.

Some are very heat tolerant. My LaManchas will sunbathe in the Texas heat of summer. They will be out there in the middle of the afternoon, stretched out like they are working on a tan like a teen at a swimming pool. They are not sweating or panting. Just sunbathing in the 100 degree heat. Gotta respect their toughness...or just call them crazy!

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Yeah, right.

We butchered the wether this morning, the last kid still on my one and only milking doe. Since the kid wasn't on her through the day, it was time to start evening milkings again.

I don't think it was this hot last Summer. I would have remembered sweat running off my arms and trying to keep it from dripping into the milk bucket...

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Thanks guys! This was interesting to read. Its just funny how I can go on some pretty hard hikes, and they wont appear to sweat. I have seen them panting a lot, but I guess I am just used to seeing a horse "foaming up".

I bought a buckling from a couple of states west of me some years back. When he got out of the plastic dog crate? He was soaking wet from sweat (evidently). He had had a 4-6 hour ride in a plastic dog crate to get to me. I've never seen one before or since that one wet like that - I'm sure it wasn't from being hosed down...

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Yep, this is what I tell some of my family who do not sweat.

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Congrats on getting the wether done!
It was only this hot for one week last year. At least for us, last summer was mostly a very cool one. This summer has been a whole different story!

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According to our weather man, this is one of the hottest summers on record so far they say.
Last 2 summers were very cool here, not good for the gardens at all, better for me & all the livestock though.

So I took my boys on a "hot hike" yesterday (cutting a new trail to the lake), it was about 101, not bad humidity..... THEY WERE DAMP!!!!!
I had to pay close attention to it, but while we were hiking up the steepest part of the hill, they began to pant, and I reached out to pat them and tell them good boy and noticed they were a touch damp.... So now I have seen them sweat! lol
(still didn't get the trail to the lake all the way cut though)