Recent content by Gracehaven

I am confident. Our coop is obsessively lined with hardware cloth. Another thing I notice is that the ducks used to all lay eggs at night (or early morning) and then would be out all day free ranging or in the water. Now nearly all the layers return to the coop and sit on their nest boxes as if...

We have a dozen laying hens and a dozen laying ducks, and a drake. We recently merged the flock with a batch of younger chickens and ducks we raised this year. (We had them in two separate coops but one was not as secure and we lost a couple to predators, so we are now homing them together at...

Nope. Northern Minnesota; I'm still wearing hooded sweatshirts and wool socks.

I hope it's ok to post this picture. This is how I found him. We have 4 other Pekins and 10 other smaller ducks (Swede, harlequin, runners, and a khaki) My husband reminded me that last night we heard them quacking loudly, and he looked from the window and saw the group returning to the...

Just found one of our pekins dead, about 6 weeks old. They had been inside in a brooder up till about a week ago, now they are in a pen of electric poultry netting with a wooden shelter. (This is a temporary arrangement while we build a permanent run with a roof on the chicken coop) The dead...