Back last August, we got 2 ducks and a drake, now 7 months later we have 29!

Were at the point of taking eggs away now, because they are slowly taking over the place and the food bills going up,  and in a dry summer, we could run out of good pasture (they eat clover, young grass, etc)

This means we are now moving on from raising ducks to eating them as well, which is quite a different mindset to have.

It helps that muscovies aren’t a duck you can grow fond of -they don’t like been handled at all, but will always follow you around for food.

So it’s also important to note we are rather impersonel with them -these aren’t pets and they don’t have names (apart from the original three)

BTW, duck orange is delicious.

ANZAC day is when New Zealand and Australia commerate those soldiers who served in the armed forces, but did not return.

I never went to the dawn service at 6AM this year, (someone needed to feed the ducks, geese, etc), So I went to the later service at 11AM.

It never feels as good as the earlier service, I think it’s something to do with been there before dawn, which only draws out the seriously committed ones, amongst us on a cold autumn morning.

The service was well organised with various speakers talking on behalf of various politicians and Government officials. The only odd speech was from the Govenor-General which had a political statement about the Ukraine war of all things.