Chicken Scratch

I'm getting out of the chicken business today.
Well, almost, we're keeping Millie and Frak, but all the rest are moving on to a new coop.

Frak

That's Millie in front

The problem is, we get more eggs than we could ever possibly eat, and living in the country, you can't sell eggs, and even the people living in town don't wan't them because everyone is a backyard farmer now and grows their own chickens and goats.

Add in the work of cleaning the coop, feeding, collecting and washing the eggs, I think I can live with runny pale hormone induced store bought eggs.
Millie and Frak will lay a few eggs here and there, but we are going to let them free range so who knows where they will lay, and...
We have fourteen baby ducks now who will lay eggs like they're going out of business.

Marry Ellen and her babies

This year we're keeping all the ducklings because the are the best pest patrol ever. They eat more flies than a fly trap traps, not to mention slugs, ants, spiders, and anything else creepy.
They're very friendly and don't tear things up like chickens do, so in my book, they're a-ok.
We will be putting the turkeys, Wills and Kate out in the barnyard soon and they will have the company of all the geese.

And hopefully Penny will be bringing down a new brood soon.
She has been up in the barn sitting for what seems like a few weeks at least.
I'm SO excited to see what she makes :)

Penny and Steve

That's about it, everything is okey-dokey, the weather is nice, the days are long...

And I have the best neighbor in the world!

Six months & sixteen pounds!

Peas!