Have a Red rooster at the moment and have had bantam hens and many others over nine years. Seems we do not have much luck with chickens. One chicken in nine years. We get close and have had foxes kill them and our chooks have been given to us. Through family and a lady raises them before we get them. Hoping to get some chickens when we get our new girls for our rooster,Red. We have about seven ducks and a goose though and she is sitting on some duck eggs. Here's hoping to baby ducklings instead.



for a successful hatch of adorable ducklings!!! 
). But, don’t give up on chickens! They are a blast and...actually lay , ive found, more reliable than ducks...they lay like crazy!! And they are gentle and nice animals, very easy to maintain, once you get the coop set up...so..good luck with you duckies..and please take pictures..,we love pictures!! 

Predators are brutal. 9 years old is very old for a chicken, you must be doing something right!