[Jacob-list] new guy in the barn yard

[Meg Steensland]

Wow - what super duckling.  I have a dozen or so hens that vacated the chicken house and moved to the tan barn and live right with the sheep and lamas  They steal their grain but also scratch in the manure and hopefully get bugs and crawlies.  A few years ago I had guineas but I think any kind of poultry does a good job.
   
  I had a yearling ram kill a feisty rooster - last one from year 2K a few months ago, but he tolerates the hens and the ducks.

Tom and Judy Riddolls <grey_wethers_farm at hotmail.com> wrote:
  so we had a duckling born a week early and has no mother to care for him 
(she won't get off the nest) , he is an industrious fellow and motors about 
the little splash pool, but for food i never knew what to do as i confine 
hatchlings as a group. So the other day i noticed he spent lots of time in 
the barn, right next to the duck pen. this morning i went out and he was 
picking mosquitos off the sleeping sheep, i hope he does not get stepped or 
sat on, but for now everyone is happy and instead of a winter dinner i think 
this one will find a permenant home in the barn.
tom

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