If anything could possibly be more tiresome than trudging through two feet of snow to feed the animals it might be having to fill buckets of water in the kitchen and trudge through those same two feet of snow to deliver water. But that’s exactly what we were forced to do last year when the […]
It was a chilly 13 degrees below zero when dawn broke the other morning and the least alarmed seemed to be our livestock. Even the chickens were out and about unfazed. It’s just us humans who take special note of these extremes. But where would we be without electricity when the world is frozen over? […]
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Barely visible at the bottom of this tub of water is a Teflon-coated heater that keeps the water liquid in the coldest temperatures, saving us huge amounts of work and aggravation in winter and ensuring our livestock have something to drink with their hay. It’s a small device, but it does so much to make […]
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