This time of year we keep the animals in the barn yard. There’s plenty of room for them, but not much grass left to graze on.
We have three other pastures where we rotational graze them in the spring and summer and fall. They’re closed off for the winter but sometimes, in the afternoon, I open gate to the back pasture. There’s still lots of brush and weedy grass for the animals to eat. There’s not much nutrition in it, but it gives them something to do.
I enjoyed watching the animals all look over at you from time to time, as if trying to guess what you have in mind. A joyful parade of lives.