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>They still had to feed the animals. They still had to milk the cows. They still had to clean after the animals. They still had to chop the firewood.
Anon if you'd ever lived on a station for any period of time you'd know winter chores aint shit, and that's when you're dealing with a modern industrial number of cattle.
The amount of animals a medieval peasant cared for personal would be exceptionally low, feeding them in the winter is a five minute job - you're not fucking MILKING in the winter because the cows aren't in calf and there's no grass so the hay is being rationed.
So with no milk, you're not making butter either. Household repairs aren't that extensive, because the houses are small (easier to heat) and either fieldstone or wattle and daub which generally just means slapping some lime, clay or mud on it to fix holes, excepting the thatch, which you've DEFINITELY done well before winter.
Repairing clothing isn't all that difficult, and you're sure to have thread aplenty since the womenfolk are dropping spindle whenever they've got the time.
Frankly you have a retarded, revisionist idea of how difficult farm life is based on modern standards which just don't apply in the era of 'close enough'.
The only job there that really sucks hard in the winter is mucking the barn.
Corvee labor was rarely anywhere near 100 days, and was more often than not carried out at the same time as regular labor, since it solely consisted of working the rows assigned to the manor rather than your own, and yes, there were significantly less work days, January and December alone each have more than HALF A MONTH of obligate Holy Days.