Well, too many rams is a bad idea.
They fight and injure ( or kill) each other.
They are aggressive and difficult to handle .
The solution is easy .
OFF WITH THEIR B***S
So the vet came and did the necessary
An after the event.
What do you do with 18 sheeps' testicles ?
A surprise in the duck run .
A duckling !
It must be a duckling hatched by wild ducks on the moor. And either it got separated from the mother , or it got washed down a small burn, and into the pond.
What to do with it ?
We tried it in with the poults , but it just cowered in a corner and got pecked.
So it went into a box by itself.
A post on an Orkney wildlife Facebook group found someone who was keen to have a duckling.
The turkey eggs hatched - we discovered this by going through the field and seeing the hen off , the nest , a couple of active poults, and a couple of bodies.
But that must be par for the course - if all eggs hatched, everytime. the world would be overrun with turkeys.
And one of the poults had the splay leg problem we had last time .
The hair-band last time didn't work, so more drastic measures were called for.
So :
We brought them in and gave them a rough surface to walk on.( corrugated cardboard)
And duct-tape is the answer to many problems. Perhaps its the answer to this ?
So the poult can stand ( and at 1 day
old, this one weighed 40 grams)
And 2 days later
We constructed a run and used one of the shelters to make a goose house to encourage her to lay eggs in a more protected place, after the events of last year .
And we think it has been successful. Eggs have been laid - we think we counted 13 a few days ago . But today -
and we could count only 10 eggs .
So some action :
We've netted the run . Hopefully to stop the hooded crow/raven/whatever , taking any more eggs
