Rosie Red the three year old Rhode Island Red hen pecking around the garden before it's planted. Hopefully she's eating all the sow bugs that eat my seedlings!
My handsome welsh harlquin drake Lloyd. He's got two lady friends that I'm hoping to get some fertile eggs from for hatching. They are...
Ducks have so much personality...they are very sweet and docile to humans (as opposed to some geese and some ornery chickens). They offer a lot of the same benefits we get from chickens---manure/fertilizer, eggs and control of bugs in the garden. One gardening author, Elliot Coleman, even...