Enjoying the Holidays

With the shortness of daylight and cold weather combined with holiday visiting not much time for anything other than watering, haying and feeding. When the weather gets this cold all the animals eat more hay to warm their bodies. Aerielle and Aifric were even under the barn to stay out of the cold rain and wind. They have such a heavy coat of hair in a normal rain they just back up to the wind, yesterday they ate twice the daily amount of hay. Closed the windows on the lamb and kid barn last night, some of the kids were wet from eating out in the rain and were cuddled up together, the sheep just slept out on the hill, still have their own shelter on their backs. Hope to shear the sheep soon if we have a warm spell in January. When I started keeping goats I soon realized they needed good shelter year round, with sheep they only need shelter when freshly shorn in winter. This week will be spent taking care of stock and making plans for fiber projects for the new year, I am thinking of spinning a two ply Cormo yarn in natural dyed colors.