Happy chickens, and the pigs also.

It's cold today. Prepping the chicken coop for the winter to come. We cover the face of the coop with a fiber paper (weed block) to help keep the winds out of there...and to contain the body heat that the chickens put off.

Pig hut will get a cover too...shredded plastic strips like you see at the truck bays. I also dug out a shallow trench to divert rain water away from their hut.

We grow various Ornamental grasses such as Zebra grass, Red Silver Miscanthus, and Calamagrostis Karl Foerster within the house landscaping. This is used for bedding material in the hut and coops. Again....almost every single animal or plant here at this farm...has a purpose. No waste.

Now Jeanette is thinking about buying a new mattress set.....perhaps a bed of grass would be cheaper...and more natural :-)