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@mystang89 yall are on the contact list for a Pup. I’m sure I’ll post them on here anyway. 
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Mainly have pics to post. It’s cold. There was ice everywhere this morning. It melted. School already called a 2 hr delay tomorrow for temps. Staying busy with sick kids that have been home all week, keeping animals bedded/fresh water/plenty of hay/enough feed to keep warm, and the usual housekeeping stuff. The larger rubber pans that we are using for Mickey, Hank, and Moxie have been awesome to deal with frozen water.
Jewel and Cowboy have enjoyed the extra access to the house. They haven’t spent enough time in to have complete manners. Cowboy ate cheese-filled ravioli with meat sauce off the counter tonight. Either way, they are enjoying time staying warm.
Jewel
Eli completely tuckered out. I walked by him like ten times and he never flinched.
Cowboy while I was cooking the other night. He and Halo are the two that typically stay closest to me.
Jewel was snoozing in DD2’s occasional bed on the floor in our room. The flash woke her.
Eli laying down and eating.
Tired Eli!
Halo cuddled on the couch. (Pups made the mess with help from the kids. House never stays clean for long.)
Cows appreciate access to the lean-to. Photo courtesy of DH.
Mickey (Steer we raised, was named Rockstar is goofy!) He plays in the water when you fill up his pan. He also licked my hand and due to the cold, I got a really painful abrasion. Silly boy!
He’s also nosy! There’s a gap in the boards over the feed freezers. If the man door is open, Mickey can see outside. He also enjoys watching me dip up feed.
Jewel and Cowboy have enjoyed the extra access to the house. They haven’t spent enough time in to have complete manners. Cowboy ate cheese-filled ravioli with meat sauce off the counter tonight. Either way, they are enjoying time staying warm.
Jewel
Eli completely tuckered out. I walked by him like ten times and he never flinched.
Cowboy while I was cooking the other night. He and Halo are the two that typically stay closest to me.
Jewel was snoozing in DD2’s occasional bed on the floor in our room. The flash woke her.
Eli laying down and eating.
Tired Eli!
Halo cuddled on the couch. (Pups made the mess with help from the kids. House never stays clean for long.)
Cows appreciate access to the lean-to. Photo courtesy of DH.
Mickey (Steer we raised, was named Rockstar is goofy!) He plays in the water when you fill up his pan. He also licked my hand and due to the cold, I got a really painful abrasion. Silly boy!
He’s also nosy! There’s a gap in the boards over the feed freezers. If the man door is open, Mickey can see outside. He also enjoys watching me dip up feed.
I'm sure there's nothing better feeling to you than to have Halo and Jewel all snuggled up with you. They are beautiful dogs and I'm sure a great help for your emotional stability. Those cows sure do look happy to be laying in that fresh straw vice that cold, wet, white stuff outside. 
Lately, Mel has been going into the goat mansion and laying down in the fresh shavings of the baby enclosures. Maybe if I left their pen gate open at night, he'd sleep in with them rather than trying to escape the pasture to come to the back deck.
Lately, Mel has been going into the goat mansion and laying down in the fresh shavings of the baby enclosures. Maybe if I left their pen gate open at night, he'd sleep in with them rather than trying to escape the pasture to come to the back deck.Mini Horses
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Those cows sure do look happy to be laying in that fresh straw vice that cold, wet, white stuff outside.
I was thinking the same thing!!
RollingAcres
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Dogs laying down, cows laying down, all very comfortable and happy.
mystang89
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Dogs laying down, cows laying down, all very comfortable and happy.
Only thing not laying down seems to be the people living there lol.
RollingAcres
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I know right?!
Bruce
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That would be consistent with his breeding
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It’s been a little hectic here. Wednesday our temps were -20 according to the windchill. Our heated chicken waterers weren’t protected enough from the wind and froze up. Ended up using rubber pans to water them from. The bull and steer waterer behind the barn froze up. We used a small plastic tub for them after that. That made three tubs we had to bust ice out of several times each day. Was quite a chore keeping everyone bedded down with water that wasn’t frozen to drink a couple times (average was 4) a day. DH and I took turns or went out together to get done twice as fast. Wednesday was also DS’ bday. He turned 5. Weather put a damper on some celebrating but we will make up for it tomorrow. I didn’t get any pics of the animals because it was too cold to take the time. I did get a few in the four inches of snow that we got overnight last night and is mostly melted already.
Alvin and Theo got a plastic dog house to provide an extra wind break. DH also leaned a piece of plywood behind part of their fence to block more wind.
Cows eating a bale of haylage. It was still snowing some for part of the morning.
Heifers in their lot. They had barn access and chose to huddle around their haylage bale.
Alvin and Theo got a plastic dog house to provide an extra wind break. DH also leaned a piece of plywood behind part of their fence to block more wind.
Cows eating a bale of haylage. It was still snowing some for part of the morning.
Heifers in their lot. They had barn access and chose to huddle around their haylage bale.
