First snow of the season!

Thanks! The animals like it!

 

She is possibly part cuckoo maran, that’s as far as our guessing went. She is the cutest, sweetest pet chicken one could want! She has recovered from her prolapse. Yay!

 

Hi, this was what it looked like last winter:
https://www.thegoatspot.net/threads/showcasing-our-barn-part-1.209533/
https://www.thegoatspot.net/threads/showcasing-our-barn-part-2.209535/
Now I only have 4 goats, so the girls have the whole right side and the whole balcony. That’s where they warm themselves in the sun. The buck gets both sides when they have to be indoors in the daytime, and Coco the wether joins the girls. (He mostly just eats his breakfast and supper on the boy side, then returns) Yes, they climb up and down, especially Jeffrey the buckaroo. He can get some of his antsy pants energy out, on those cold days, running up and down.
Thanks for the compliment about May!
This spring the chickens will move to a new seperate coop.

 

Thanks! Yes, it’s always the juggle, where to put water, feeders, minerals, when you have ramps. The poop comes tumbling down. I had to move things a few times.

 

Yes, that was him as a youngster.

 

Hey, thanks! I JUST put it there!

 

Thanks!

 

It is the time of the arctic high pressure sysyem. We are experiencing extreme cold temperatures (-26 F, tonight’s forecast -33F), as we do once or twice every winter. At least the sun is coming out today. Yesterday it was freaking cold but cloudy. I was so worried, I had a hard time sleeping. But, all is ok this am, goats are furiously eating hay, bucky still has his tail up, Willow is wearing a fleece vest over top of her sweater, and she’s in heat of all things! May and Coco are puffy clouds, looking for more beet pulp from my cold hands.
Off to take more hot water out.

 

Yes, more times going out to check on everyone, that’s for sure.
I am looking at their eyes. Jeffrey got pink eye last Friday, so I am checking them all the time. I have the head holder rigged up in the milk room. Turn the heater on, do chores, then after some time, I take him in to do his eye treatment. It’s a challenge, with a doe in heat he has to walk past. So far so good, his eye is almost all back to normal.
Heat lamps for the chickens are on until the sun warms the place up more.
I hope you are all staying warm! Nice to get warm weather in Middle Earth, @MellonFriend !