moving out

So the turkeys, currently named Tiger and Lilly,  have got a bit bigger, and got some feathers, so they have been put outside

The chick run has been fixed, they have been moved in , and they have been out exploring .

And we have one earmarked for Thanksgiving day, hopefull yot be shred with Canon Tom Miller, currently a voluntary exile from Manhatten  , and the other for Christmas time.

New additions

Weve had acouple of geese for a while - when we had lots of ducks ( before the stoat got to them ) , the geese used to hang around with the ducks
So someone wants shot of their geese .  Apparently the geese eat plants  ( who'd  have thought of it ) and someone needed to pass on his geese because of thier culinary habits .

Hmmm  gardening wife, or geese. Hmmmmmm

So we decided to increase our geese holding. We are told that goose gets a good price at Christmas, so with a gander or 2, the geese wont be futilely sitting on plates  or eggs. 

So we went to get some geese 

and brought them back. Weve put one of the ganders with our 3 geese ( Gloria and Gertie) . So we need a name for him starting  with 'G'. Geoffrey ? Guido? Ganymede, ? Gandalf?

We leave them penned togther and he  will get the hang of having his brood.

Meanwhile the other 4 ( one gander and 3 geese) , have been put togther in a field, separate from the other ones.  Good job we;ve got 25 acres !

 And we will take orders for Christmas 2019 sometime

Christmas Birds

Back in July we hatched 5 ducks.
Unfortunately 3 of the 5 are males.
There is a problem with this.
Drakes dont lay eggs.
And they have a voracious sexual appetite.
If we kept all the males , the female dusk we have wouldn't have a minutes'  peace.  And we have had  females drowned in the pond as they have been held underwater by the enthousiastic males


So there is sadly  really only one solution to this