How do farmers keep their livestock and all other animals (chickens, pigs, sheep, etc) from freezing to death in the harsh cold winter months, like in regions up north? Especially if they have dozens upon dozens of animals? I’d imagine if they group them all in an extremely large barn or something, they’d have to keep it extremely insulated?
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At a college I worked at in kentucky (not that cold) we had free range pigs. Each group was rotated through pasture paddocks regularly and had a Quonset hut structure that we would pack full of straw when temperatures were going to dip. The pigs would pile in the hut in a big cuddle fest under the straw for the night. In the mornings when we would check their water and bring them some mixed feed all you could see was steam coming out of the straw and no visible pigs. Once the mixed feed was dumped on their feeding pad it was funny watching them climbing out of the hut, it was like a geyser of steaming pigs pouring out of the hut snorting with both excitement and amusement.
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