Limpy the Duck

but the limp is improving. A few days ago she couldn't manage across the  field without a little sit-down half way

Demanding ducks

The ducks get locked up  at about 8pm every night. And then unlocked at 10 am the next morning . it means that any eggs that are laid ( they usually lay in the morning )  will be easy to find, rather than laid wherever she thought at the time .  The pain of being locked up is eased by feeding them some  grain once they are  in their enclosure.

So at about 7.30 the ducks appear  at the front door.

they then follow you across the lawn

and willing go into their pen, to be fed grain

In Memoriam

 RIP 2 November 2013

ducks and water

And the ducks have finally realised that there is water available , that isn't in  a bucket.

And then there were 7

Not content with the 3 Saxony ducks , including we hope,  a drake , we've added 4 Cherry Valley birds.

So they go round the pen en masse

And its not like hens - any heirarchy seems to have been sorted out and there is just the occasional mild peck.  They need to get the idea of nesting in the same place - who knows  how for up ( or down ) the Burn they will end up if left to their own devices. So currently they are penned in and 'encouraged to go in the Eglu at night.

Once they've got the idea  they can try the pond.