Believe it or not, we got all the heat lamps up before it got too cold. It’s just not pleasant stringing wires and clipping lamps when the temperatures are below 25!
As you can see here, though, these heat lamps are indispensable on cold Colorado nights. Last year Christina and her two babies loved huddling down into their warm pen when the sun went down. Of course it didn’t hurt that we gave them some hay to munch on.
We have about 10 pens total ready to go, so we should be able to accommodate all the babies we have coming this winter. We split the barn into several smaller pens enclosed with wire panels covered in chicken wire. We didn’t used to do the chicken wire, but after seeing a few babies get their heads stuck in the panels, we learned our lesson! Now we line all the panels where the babies are going to be so we don’t have any more of those incidences!
Now all we have to do is wait. We brought a lot of our young moms in from the pasture a few weeks ago to be with the buck. They were disappointed at first, but have now adapted to life in the barn where they will spend the next little while. Chores have gotten a little harder with the cold as well, as now we have to drain the hoses after every use. Great exercise, but tough on the shoulders!
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