Ranch owners scrambled to protect animals and plants vulnerable to cold, windy weather blowing into Broward and Miami-Dade Counties.
At Maranda Farm and Ranch, staff are using special coats and stacked bales of hay to keep animals warm.
Behind the petting zoo’s gate, staff led horses wearing insulated coats to buckets of minerals to make the animals thirsty for water. As temperatures plunge, ranch CEO Chelsea Maranda’s biggest fear rises…