Our Muscovy duck is not doing the dance, but she seems to be saying: I don't wanna be a duck. I don't wanna be a duck. I just wanna be a chicken. Bock bock bock. She is laying her eggs in the hen house now. Without any prompting from us she has been going in there every night. I thought maybe she wanted to set on her eggs, but so far she is just laying and coming out in the morning.
A lot of the poultry are moving to new homes this week. The meat chickens went to freezer camp. The year old layers (4 Khakis), big sister A's young flock (5), and my 3 week old goslings (10) & ducklings (7) all moved into the big hoop house on Sunday.
We are keeping the youngest bunch separate for a week or two. They just moved outside and I don't want the big ducks to pick on them.
They are spending their days in the tractor to keep them safe from hawks and such.
Big sister A's ducklings have about half their feathers in now.
The turkey poults are only 3 weeks old, a little young to be outside, but they moved out anyway. They were flying out of the brooder and pooping in the basement. They took over ducks' old house. The guinea keats will eventually join them.
This turkey is named Eagle. He likes to perch on children.
And just in case the poultry were not keeping us busy enough, we have a new litter of bunnies to play with. They are just 12 days old in these pictures.
There are only three. Five were stillborn. We think it was because their was a heatwave the day before they were born. At least the mama is okay. She fed eleven kits last time, so these three are super roly poly and well-fed.
They are the first litter of kits from the show rabbit - Jack Jack.
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