When I first went out today, it was late morning.  The heat was mounting and the animals were in a sedentary state.  The goats rested in a thoroughly shady spot under a cluster of trees in the yard.
The sheep have decided that one of their favorite cool spots is on the cement under the back porch. [...]

Worlds apart, but in the same room. The pig spread out on his billowy, alpaca-fiber filled luxury bed just across from his silver dinnerware. The chick living in the congested feces-filled confines of a slum, under the sweltering heat of unnatural light, devil-red luminosity, scrounging for food on the floor.
Neither are aware of the other [...]

I knew about the law of diminishing returns from my economics class, but never did I expect that it would be applied so brutally as it has been to my little farm.
Piscataway Acres began with a small flock of laying hens in a tall, white coop across the yard on the edge of the woods. [...]