Baby it's cold outside!

A baby Mulefoot, snuggled
in the straw and catchin'
some warming rays.

Well, the weather sure has turned the corner here in the Ozarks. Yesterday it was nice, almost balmy even. Today, it is brrrrrrrry!! In light of the much cooler temps, part of my farm chores will be to load more straw into the various bedding areas for the sheep (Petunia and Penelope) and their Anatolian Shepherd (Griz), our two Mulefoot gilts (Polka and Dot…yeah yeah, don’t say it!), as well as our royal (and registered) Mulefoot boar (Henry) and his two pregnant girls (Danielle and Nicole).

During last winter’s bitterly cold days, I was amazed at how warm the straw was inside the Mulefoot house. When we would call to them at feeding time, all the hogs would scramble (the babies) and amble (the adults) out of the house covered in straw pieces.  Our two hair sheep do not have big fleecy coats so I am sure they have been snuggling together at night. Griz has his insulating undercoat already in place and I’m sure he will appreciate a warm bed to sleep in tonight.

We have plenty of firewood to run the wood burning furnace for the house, delicious and filling food grown here on the farm, and so very importantly, we have each other to laugh with and talk to. Be happy, warm, and well!