After locking up the kids-plus, I pushed the eight goats normally on the left side [Jared, Scout, Lerris, Jessie, Anna, Alys, Dahlia, and Ginger] over to the right stall as well. I lined the exterior stall walls with flakes of hay to block the cracks and give everyone plenty of food and bedding in one, and put extra hay in all of the hay baskets and the two ricks still attached to that side. I put one heated bucket in with the little guys and one out with the big guys.
With the kidding pen also dividing the front section of the stall, the big goats have plenty of walls against which to lean and/or block away the goats that they don't like. But there is still room in the front by the door for the llama, too. I did not lock the big goats into the kidding pen or the main stall in general because I'm still not sure about the politics of that group. Sure, I know that the Jessie cabal (Jessie, Anna, Lerris) gets along, but I don't know about the other five. I also don't want the llama feeling crowded more than necessary. What I expect to happen is for six of the eight to cram into the kidding pen section, with Scout and Ginger nesting in the back of the main section, with Hercules blocking the door.
When I left, everyone was eating and drinking except for Summer, who was already curled back down in her favorite corner, chewing her cud.
For the boys, I took two hay bales up front and plopped them down as windbreaks/food for the night. I'm not so concerned about the boys because of their mass and how deep I've let the hay build up this past week as bedding. They will probably be more thirsty than the girls because of how far away the water bucket is and how cold it is to walk all the way down to the gate from their barn. But if they want it, the water is there, and that bucket is also plugged in and won't freeze.
One of the major attractions of such a small chicken coop is being demonstrated tonight. The coop is barely four-chickens large, so three chickens and a full flake of straw should be warm enough tonight with the door closed on them. I don't have a way to keep water liquid for the chickens right now, though I may remember to fix that tomorrow by buying an electric dog water dish. We'll see. If I bring them hot water in the morning, they will have a few hours before it freezes.
