Naughty Ducks..

We have let our ducks and geese go ‘free range’ on our property for the last few months, but they are slowly  getting more observant and working things out, while also slowly pushing the limits to see what they can get away with…

Like working out where the food comes from…

Like ‘visiting’ our fish pond…., regardless of our obvious displeasure.

one of those ducks is real…

And visiting the neighbours orchard and eating any fruit on the ground.

Making a beeline for the neighbours tree’s…

Fortunately, the neighbours dont mind, probably because, at least one of them will likely be the centre of attention at a dinner party.. 

New Arrivals

Our second duck Josephine has been very patiently sitting on a nest of eggs for the past month, so it was uncharacteristic of her to be up and about yesterday…

I think she wanted to let us know of her latest arrivals, eight nine ten ducklings.

Meanwhile, our very clucky chicken is a proud foster mum to a young chick.

That brings our numbers up to two geese, seven chickens, and twenty ducks + a cat.

It’s been good so far, but we will cap our numbers at what we have, least it gets unmanageable.
That means collecting any more duck eggs, least they become ducklings…