Happy pets

After recnetly rain my front yard is starting to resemble a jungle.

So today i have put out some ducks and chooks in portable runs on the grass to scratch around and eat it down.

The ducks, 7 muscovy ducklings and 2 khaki campbell ducks are out in the very lobg frass.

So far they ahve done a wonderful job cleaning out snails,slugs and my favourite,slater bugs.The bugs provide entertainment as well as food as the ducks chase them through the long grass.

Funny to watch the smaller duckling fighting over snails or the weeds they love to eat.

The japanese bantams and silkie bantams are in the short grass.

They are picking at the seed heads and scratching thru leaf matter.

They also have an array of bugs inclding some small grasshoppers.

Hercules(my little rooster) has let out a few little crows to show he is happy.

And the girls are enjoying taking a dust bath after a few weeks of being in quarrentine(they are newly accquired.)

The rest of my guys are in the neighbours pool yard cleaning up where the neighbours removed their old pool.

A great menu of cockaroaches,snails,worms,slugs,slaters,and spiders keeps them entertained till dark when they will pop back thru the fence and go to bed after the buff orpington ducks take a bath.

And the last of the poultry pals,polly and molly my muscovy ducks are quietly sitting contenplating motherhood.

Their eggs( 1duck egg each and a few chook eggs) are due to hatch on the 16th of January.

I candled the eggs last night and we sure do have some little polly and mollys and a few little peepers coming.

I could clearly see the embryos moving inside the eggs.

Very exciting stuff!