Hi fae Scotland

[Miss Lydia]

So sorry for all your losses, and all those Roosters. I think many of us can relate to last year being the year of the roo and drakes. Hopefully this year will balance that out with more females.

 

[Meg-in-MT]

Hello! Welcome to BYC!! I'm so sorry about your ducks. That's awful.

 

[featherhead007]

Welcome. Do your chickens and ducks chirp and quack with an accent?

 

[TwoCrows]

Sorry to have been a stranger since joining! Thanks for your welcomes!! So, to catch up...
My ducks didn't fair very well I'm afraid, I had a rat problem and only two ducklings made it to childhood (duckhood?) and then the worst thing happened just before christmas- American Mink :-( this visit resulted in me finding all seven ducks the next morning ripped to bits on the island. A very sad day. My hens hatched nine chicks and raised them all with no losses WOOHOO, that was woohoo until I realised seven of them were roosters! What are the odds? I've moved the roosters into their own pen and left the dad with the mothers in the other pen. I'm currently building a large pen and coop (with internal dividers and separate entrances/exits to separate parts of the run for the two groups) and will move them in soon. I also bought a couple Barnevelder POLs .
TDR

Sorry about all the loses. But congrats on the chicks!! Enjoy your flock!

 

[Pork Pie]

Welcome. Do your chickens and ducks chirp and quack with an accent?

Depends on where yer from in Scotland

 

[chrissynemetz]

I'm so sorry about your losses. Hopefully things will get easier.

 

[The Duck Runner]

Thanks for your replies folks. Re Featherhead's question - No accent but when the young uns square up to each other they have this "Dinna start!" look in their eyes and if no-one backs down they go in with the heed (head) rather than using beaks or feet

 

[drumstick diva]

Some family members have visited Scotland and loved it. They also saw displays of dogs working the sheep - young puppies among them doing what the big dogs did. Adorable.
They bought me a small stuffed border collie named Jenny. They could not get over how beautiful and green Scotland is .

 

[drumstick diva]

You have lived through the worst now, I hope you will be living through the very BEST!!!

 

[The Duck Runner]

Yup, we certainly get enough rain to keep the countryside green!! The American mink are currently a BIG problem here. They have no predators and they bred like wildfire last year so the offspring are out looking for new areas to populate...and devastating livestock as they go. There is a invasive species organisation setting raft traps all over the NE Scotland right now. Fingers crossed it helps.
TDR