Wow! My motherland has shocked me again!
I live in the UK for 12 years now. Since I was 17yo.
I was born in a city and spent my childhood living on 11th floor - far cry from country life.
I always loved animals and only had opportunity to have my first hens etc during my university years in Leicester.
Anyway basically i only have experience of farming, including agricultural college in Melton, from the UK. I am used to seeing sheep and cows on snow covered mountain tops of Wales a d Scotland. But... on both highlands and lowlands of my native Poland, as I read, people KEEP SHEEP AND cows in the shed for 7 MONTHS A YEAR!!! British sheep see the shed for like 2 weeks a year (if that)!
I just read an article (in Polish) saying someone contacted police, local council and local animal health department because they saw cows and horses outside in snow - temperature was only around -2 (which is nothing to be honest, as it gets to -20 sometimes over there).
Even the professor of agriculture said there is nothing wrong with keeping cows outside all winter as long as they have enough food and water.
It's just soooo different than here in the UK!