And Then There Were 2…

We bought our initial flock of ducks from the farm store 4 years ago. Four Indian Runner ducks and two Khaki Campbell ducks. With this group of six we ended up with four drakes (males) and two ducks (females). Ducks are quite different, in my opinion, from chickens. My ducks have been hand raised, starting …

Duck Tails

The ducklings have reached the stage of life that I can now definitively tell whether they are boy or girl ducks. Man-Farmer was hoping for all boy ducks. For one specific reason only...no eggs. No eggs would mean that there would be zero possibility of any more ducks in his future. I had to burst …

A Duck Named Patty

Living on a farm with animals brings great amusement to my life. But, with all of the smiles that kittens and ducklings bring, there's always the possibility that harm will come to one of them at any moment. The farm animals don't live in the house with us, they live in an outbuilding behind the …

Farm Update

The ducklings are looking like ducks now. They almost have all of their feathers. They swam in a pool for the first time this week. Some of the ducklings have bald spots on their heads.  The big ducks have been seen chasing them around.  When the big ducks catch the little ducks that peck them …

Ducklings

  In a previous post I wrote you may remember that our duck, A Khaki Campbell named Patty, was laying on a nest of eggs. 12 eggs... She began to lay her eggs when we were on our vacation in Florida. My dad noticed that our male ducks, the drakes, were hanging around behind our …

Poultry Problems

We got up earlyish on May 25th as we were hoping to set out on our road trip to Florida by 7am. Man-Farmer went out to the barn as he normally does to open the pasture gate for the pony, Buttercup Luck.  He opens the chicken coop door so that the 4 chickens and 8 …

The Farm

It's been a while since I did a real farm post. I thought I would share some pictures of the resident animals and a few shots of the human animals that reside at Cheshire Farm. We moved the chicks out to the barn because they were getting too big to be in a cardboard brooder …

Farm Photography

I'm trying something new. Something I've thought about doing, but didn't know really how to get started. Or how to present my idea to the public. But, fate and time have intersected and now I'm gonna give it a go. I'm going to make some of my farm photos into notecards to sell at a …