Where are you located? And what exactly is a "cooling room"?
Cooler rooms do cost. We had one at the old place that was 10x12, insulated with 4" of spray foam and had a 24,000 BTU air conditioner with a Cool Bot. It worked well and we could keep it around 60* all day even on 95* days. After we moved my kid only had a couple of years left to show and we just tied them in the new uninsulated barn every morning with butt fans and misters on a timer. We grew almost as good of hair as with the cooler room. Ideally you also need to have cattle tied by sunup and let out after sundown. Where you tie them should be totally dark if possible. This shortens the amount of daylight they are exposed to, which promotes hair growth. Melatonin in their feed about 60 days prior to show will also promote hair growth. So those are a couple tricks you can do without going to the expense of a full bore cooler room and still grow hair on your show critters.
I know drying them after washing is the norm but if you leave them wet does that have a cooling effect and promote hair growth ?
Rinse, comb, rice root brush and blow out completely in the morning after feeding. We would tie them after feeding then bring out one at a time to rinse and blow out. Evening usually involved working on showmanship then feed. No rinsing in evening. The rinsing relaxes the hair and the blow out helps train the hair. Never leave one wet.
Not sure. Ours would be caked in shyt by morning. LOL
That is probably an understatement. Intense in effort required, time required and $$$$ required.
It took us several years to just get the basics down. We refused to buy big money cattle and always looked for the sleeper steer that we thought we could feed right and grow some show hair on. Start with show animal selection, then a feed program to keep them progressing and be fat at the terminal show, hair work, showmanship. My kid made his college money showing steers and selling at county fair from age 9 to 18. But we really preferred showing breeding heifers, mostly Angus heifers we purchased to eventually be part of the cow herd and a few we raised. We didn't win very often, but we could sure scare the ones who had a lot more money in it. My kid also liked showmanship because he didn't need the $10K steer to win it -- just had to outwork everyone else at home because it is reflects in how your stock behaves and handles when you get to town for the show.
thanks we have been feeding melatonin for the last 120 days. i was wondering about misters though.
They will help cool the air down kind of like a swamp cooler. However, if you don't turn them off periodically they will make things wet. Best is to run about 15 minutes on and 45 minutes off even in a dry climate like we have. If you can swing the cost, these are awesome https://portacool.com/jetstream-evap-coolers/
Did you pay attention to what GoWyo said about doing about as good with just fans and misters?
Yes! (my pc is being supid)
thanks
I agree with that
