As I've posted before, I'm currently 3 weeks into an interesting experiment for a friend of mine. I agreed to raise some ducks for her in return for keeping 3-5 of them. After I agreed to the venture, she added in some BR turkeys...they, of course, arrived with 10 packing peanuts. I now have 24 ducklings, 10 chicks, and 9 poults and they're all almost 4 weeks old. The poults have been super affectionate from day one and will fly over and perch on me when I'm in the pen. The chicks run like the wind when I'm in there and the ducks will approach only if I have treats. Today I had the whole motley crew out of the run into a big pen play in the grass and let the ducks swim. Our neighbors were AMAZED that the turkeys would fly up and perch on the side of the pen in front of me to visit. Sigh....I can't keep a turkey...not enough room....but they're really really sweet.
