Quote Originally Posted by Raptor View Post
I wouldn't be surprised if it's because there's so much conflicting information. One site says feeding live is okay. Another says feeding live is a horrible thing and that only good owners feed f/t. One will say that paper towels are fine, another will say aspen is the only thing to use. So on and so forth.

I remember when my family first got into goats and we were trying to figure out what green stuff would be best to feed a sick goat. So, we went to google (like so many of you are claiming). We pulled up two websites. One said that oak leaves were good for goats, but poison sumac was bad. The other website said the exact opposite. Both websites had conflicting information. Finally, we gave up. Turns out that neither plant harms goats and in fact, they love to munch on the plants.

Point is, there's hundreds of breeders with their own website. Each one will have a slightly different method, some will be radically different. With this in mind, how is a person supposed to know what is "right"?
When faced with that dilemma, I have found a good solution is to look at all the places you've researched and make sure they've all been professionally written and see what gets repeated most often. I know I saw swings of 85-95F for the hot spot and 60-90 for the cool when I was looking into temperatures, but the majority of sites said 88-90, no warmer than 95, and that's what I stuck with. If there are just wildly different answers, I'll find someone who seems knowledgeable (like for instance, a very widely renowned breeder such as BHB, LLL, etc) and ask them if my proposed set-up is okay. I might even take a peek around a forum to see what people who commonly keep these pets have to say about this or that and take their advice with a grain of salt