Deconstructed

Our pigs have torn one wall off of their only shelter.

The chickens are just about as bad, having picked the insulation out of one side of the chicken house.

The cow continually breaks the hay ring so she can lay on her food and peer witlessly at the unused bedding in the barn.

North Dakota winters prove the costliness of their ignorance. Their deconstruction arises from instinct, perhaps, but it is no less deadly if we leave them as they are. 

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