Well i really don't know where the time goes, i was thrown slightly this week by the schools being closed yesterday. I think my brain thought today was Monday, but i am truly jiggered this week, cleaning and brushing our chicken and duck houses out. Started with power washer but you still need to brush all excess waste away. Shoulders are sore, need to wear wellies because of the wet but find wellies too hot and feet all sweaty - soon be fit flop weather.
Since one of our lovely saxony ducks has been drowned - yes drowned we are off to the royal cornwall showground tomorrow they are having a poultry sale and machinery sale, so hopefully will have new birds to mention soon. Our sons like the sales especially when the catering van is in situe!
Sale not that good for us, we have become very particular about our birds we have most from a lady that breeds as a hobby and her birds are very clean and well looked after a lot of the birds we saw today were not. People selling a trio of birds 2 hens and 1 cockeral only - all were cockerals, when you know what your looking for its easy to tell! So we bought nothing, don't want disease bringing in. By the way the duck drowned because it appears the drakes become very keen to be friends and there was nothing in the water to stand on so she couldn't get out of the water. You learn something new every day.
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Hi, me again. Ducks are terrible when they get amorous. Sometimes you can have 5 or 6 drakes trying to board a poor duck. Drowning is not uncommon. Our male goose dips the females head under the water when he's onboard. My husband always tells me to be thankful I'm not a goose! Would you not be tempted to get a couple of silkie hens, they sit on anything from ping pong balls to duck eggs. They make great mums and the rest of your flock would continue to lay instead od sitting. Debs
Hi Debs,
i have been neglecting the blog but read your comments with interest. Being completely new to The Good Life, i am grateful for any help. We are off the the Royal Cornwall Show on friday and i will see whats around ie silkies, also there will be a sale at end of June for poultry at local market. Having said that some folk try to sell really poor quality birds, and although tempted to rescue would hate to put my lovely poultry family at risk!
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