You've got me thinking now...
I used to keep ducks with the hens when I was a kid, but they do make a lot of mess so I haven't thought about it in Korat.
But... I do prefer ducks, they have great characters and are fun to watch, and the occasional duck egg wouldn't go amiss. I still have the bath from the upstairs bathroom and I'm now thinking of building an extension to the chicken run, setting the bath into the ground to make a small pond, and getting a few ducks to join my flock. It'll give me something to do.
Do Ducks and chickens get on?
^ Yeah, they do.
We used to use broody bantams to hatch out duck eggs and the chicks were very confused.
I've only been back a couple of days and yesterday morning I went to check on a broody jungle fowl hen and much to my surprise a chick had hatched out overnight.
As it hatched on the wife's Birthday I thought it would be nice to name the chick after the missus, to mark the day.
Meet little 'Fuhrer'!
I have the cock that never rests... even when I'm away it works tirelessly.
Congrats on another child, Nelson!
A splendid looking cock in the early morning light.
While wise avoid hen parties these are splendid pictures of your menagerie, do you put ducks in the big pond where predators might bother?
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