Our chickens and ducks have been enjoying this summer. We let them free range when we are home, and they love to wander around our yard, looking for yummy things to eat. We currently have 4 ducks and 29 chickens (14 adults, 15 chicks/almost adults). Here are some updated pictures of the flock:
Here are our older lady ducks. These two and the new ducks still hang out in two pairs, mostly. We can tell them apart because these ladies have dark-stained bills, the newbies have orange bills.Here are the new ducks, they were running away when I tried to take their picture. Another way to tell the pairs apart is that the male (in back, here) quacks softly, all the time. So you always know where he is in the yard.Here is Esky (short for Escape Artist). She is one of our oldest hens, and the only one who lays white eggs.Here is Esky’s daughter – she has the same comb as her mom, and was born the next year (so is about 3 years old)Here are our two Buff Brahmas, they were enjoying a dust bath. They along with Esky make up our 4 year old hens.Here is our older (2 years old?) rooster Bertram, patrolling the yard.Here are a bunch of chickens coming for treats. The black hen at the front is an older lady, and most of the rest are chicks from this year. You can see some of the coloring now – some of the chicks have really amazing feather patterns.I believe this is a young rooster, and he looks like a young Bertram.Here are more chicks – they are all different – some light, some bright orange, some black and gray. We have a lot of muff-necked chickens now.Here is one of the really cool looking ones – orange and black with a muff neck.Here is one of our young roosters. If you look back at our chick pics, this one was the one with little cat-eye eyeliner. He likes to come out of the coop each morning and crow before Bertram does. Bertram doesn’t seem to mind just yet.Here is a Buff-Orpington looking hen (she seems docile like a hen, anyway) as well as the back of our older Brahma’s head.
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