Cool'n'breezy in Central Qld today..... but...... I worked up a sweat (glow?) getting the goats out of the duck pen, rescuing the horse food from more goats, persuading the chooks to stay in their pen and rounding up the new kid who thinks he runs the place. All are now fed and I only have had to endure one goat butting and my foot stomped on but at least I am warm.
Six months ago I got a bakers dozen 10 day old Indian Runner ducklings that have just started laying eggs. Ducks randomly drop their eggs around the pen, considering they can lay up to 300 eggs a year each, I may find myself very busy when they are in full production. The ducks spend their nights safe from foxes and dingos in a pen and house. The days are spent in a grassed pen that has a specially dug pond. They swim for the majority of the day.....happy as ducks in a pond!
Some more Runner duck trivia... they are entertaining, easy to herd so they are used to train stock dogs, male runners are distinguishable by 2 curled tail feathers.
Enough about the ducks I am sure I will mention them again in future posts.
