I'm good... the other day my broody duck got of the nest for I bit and I checked her nest and there was a smashed egg in the nest and there was a dead duckling in the egg :( I didn't even expect the eggs to even get far enough to look like ducklings.... I should have more faith in my ducks, but...
good, but someone else might take it that way so I'll just leave it saying blah... after all, one of the byc rules is "Respect the BackYardChickens Staff. They dedicate LOTS of volunteer time keeping the forum running smoothly." and I wouldn't want anyone to think I was trying to be...
We only ever kill them like every two years, so they'll stay being good egg layers, although we sometimes did meat chickens but everybody complained about that horribly. I'm hoping these chickens will have a longer life span since we always have too many eggs, everyone complains about...
I used to love to help with it when I was three or something.. "weeee I'm helping with something!!!" and then I got not afraid to be put down in the chicken yard and started hanging out with them and all of a sudden I hated chicken butchering.