Snow Days at the Farm

Just because there is snow on the ground doesn't mean the farm work stops. The animals still need to be fed & watered. When the weather is freezing like it has been this past week-end ,we must break the ice off of the water troughs and refill them with fresh water. We also make sure that they have plenty of straw to bed down in especially those moms with babies. On Sunday we had to grind more feed so the animals would have plenty to eat this week.

There is also farm maintenance. We check the perimeter of the fences to make sure there are no trees, limbs, etc. down and make sure there are no snow drifts on any of the fences.

If we haven't already watered the animals this is the time we make sure the pipes aren't frozen & the straighten out the water hoses.

We usually try to crank all the equipment. This was not a problem this week-end because we needed the tractor & feed grinder to grind feed, we used the Bobcat to feed round bales, we used the Gator & the truck to make our rounds (it was way too cold to walk)!

Here are a few pictures from the snow at the farm.

Lee putting feed into the pigs feeder

Mel & the pigs.

The big plastic container is their waterer.





Two of the baby pigs in their hut

Little pigs in the snow

This pig had been buried in the straw & when we were changing her water she came out to see what we were doing.

Chow time for these sows

Grass-fed beef

Llama Bean

We had just let the chickens out & they were eating their breakfast

I think they wanted to ride in the truck with us!