Like Annoth said, depends on your location and also depends on how much work you want to put into growing hair. I personally don't have any experience with a cooler, but I live in MN and with a fan running all the time I was able to keep my dairy steers eating and grew about an inch of hair on them over the course of summer (wasn't trying to, just did it) and I did have decent hair growth on my beef steers (only had 2). I think a lot of it has to do with how many animals you are planning to raise at a time and how much time you want to spend rinsing/combing/blowing.