Around The Farm In Winter

Midwinter isn't so bleak with sunrise skies like this on so many mornings:

 The little hens are safe and relatively warm in their own room:

 The pigeons' room is right next to the chickens' room. Last year I allowed them to mingle, at least until I figured out that the hens were eating the pigeons' eggs as fast as they were laid. Now I keep them separated, in their own rooms:

 A couple of birds act like they might want to nest, but there have been no eggs. It's a good thing, as no egg or baby would survive in the frigid temperatures we've had:

 We continued to get snow. It used to melt soon after falling, but now I think it's here to stay:

 I regularly now have to take the bale spear off of the tractor and replace it with the 6' bucket so I can plow the snow:

 Most days now, all the cows except Jasmine come into the barn for a bit of breakfast grain (not too much, though - they're all fat):

 Right across the aisle from the cows, Blue and Remy have separate stalls in which to eat their breakfasts. The gates are to keep them from fighting and to keep out the cows:


 Both poultry waterers sit on heaters to keep them thawed, but one of the heaters died and I had to thaw the icy waterer atop my kitchen stove. I also had to buy a new heater:

 Jasmine never comes to the barn for her grain - and she's the one who really needs it, so I carry her out a bowl each morning:

 Wild Bedstraw plants are still green and sometimes show on the surface of the snow around the barn:

 Now that the geese have gone south, corn fields are often visited by flocks of wild turkeys: