Yes derp. Sheep still need to eat in the winter. Wow. Anyone with a brain knows that animals still require food in the winter. > shepherds `living` out of doors They did not stay in the fields with their herds in the winter. Also Augustus ordered all his subjects to "register" in their own towns. Some of them would of had to travel for days sometimes more than a week. With the order already being unfavorable as it was, I doubt Augustus would have made them make the journey in winter. Get good or GTFO. Stop trying to justify celebrating a lie.