Little Horses Of Winter

Remy likes to hang out inside the barn when the weather is cold and windy:

 And Blue follows wherever Remy goes:

 Remy at the barn door. Notice the frost on the end of his nose:

 Blue and Remy at the bale feeder with Jasmine. I don't remember where the other cows were at the time:

 I put the horses in their stall for the three coldest nights this winter, but that meant I had a lot of messy bedding and frozen poop to clean up. I have to fork it into the bin and then carry the bin out through the door to the tractor bucket:

 Of course I also had to clean the main barn floor where the cattle had spent the night. Then I put down new bedding hay. Remy and Blue thought I'd prepared a banquet table for them:


 Both little horses love to paw through the snow for any plant material to eat, even if it's plants they usually won't touch or if it's dead and brown. I suppose it's instinct to do so, an instinct which keeps wild horses alive during the winter:

 They each have a small stall for eating their grain, a place where they can't fight and the big cows can't bother them:

 And as soon as they're done eating, they begin making a racket by banging their metal pans on the concrete floor. They seem to think it's great fun, maybe even making music:


 Blue's snowy snout showed they he'd been digging in the snow for edible treasures:

 Like the cows, the horse's backs collect snow without melting it. They are quite well insulated:

 What is this, you may well ask. I took this photo from up in the hay loft, where I was tossing down hay for the horses below. They don't mind it falling on them and, in fact, seem to enjoy it: