Oh noooo Chris, I'm so sorry about the ducks, I did love how you always said morning ladies to them. Congratulations on getting married and your 20wk scan. It's all exciting.
Congratulations to you both on your wedding. So sorry to hear about the ducks 😢Looking forward to hearing the other big news. I really hope you both get the break you deserve and find your own farm soon.
How do you fence? Net or wire? Here we have fox, mongoose and weasel. We had a duck with the chickens against the mongoose but unfortunately she died last week ( at least 9 years old). I'd love for them to free range in the fields but I'd be scared to have them taken out by some predator. As before we lost all our chickens two years ago. Nothing to be found but blood and feathers.
Congratulations to the both of you! When you make the leap you will be getting a solar panel for every fence. I wouldn't twice. Have one small panel for a fencer which runs all summer long. At worst i only have to charge it once.
Congratulations on getting to the wedding and all the rest of the good things. Sorry about the ducks - I had a pine marten into the hen coup in the low barn - made a fox being in look like a walk in the park 😔
Ducks can deffo hold onto it. Had the same issue ... fox took out my khaki campbells. Had some eggs I'd been collecting, and one hen left that kept laying ... they hatched! Congrats to you and Zoe 😊
So sorry about your ducks, it is true that eggs can still be fertile a few days after mating. Might be worth leaving a couple under if she does sit and mark the Ebay ones so you know which if any hatch. Many congrats on your wedding, definitely about time Toyota gave you a Hilux.
I was SO SO sad when I saw Zoe's instagram about the ducks. I just kept thinking about how gutted you would be, I know how much joy they brought. Sigh. I do hope you get more to hatch. Bring the joy!! Congrats on the wedding and the healthy babe growing. So happy for you both!! 😍🎉🎉
Congratulations newlyweds 😊 Hope Zoe is well. Devastating news about the ducks, that's really sad. Fingers crossed for the new eggs. When you said you had 2 new clutches to buy the adverts started and I watched them both in full!
Many congratulations on your wedding. I wish you a long and happy marriage with more laughter than tears. Shame about the ducks. I hope you manage to get some more.
Congrats to you guys! Here in Oregon USA, coyotes are the problem, and they will tear sheep up also, oh and hawks will pick your hens off also. We would gladly take that rain you’re getting!
I saw what happened to the ducks on instagram. I was devastated for you and selfishly for me. They were my favourite animals you have. Is there any way I can chip into buying some more? Congratulations on the wedding Zoe looked stunning ❤
Congratulations to you both on your wedding hope you have many happy years together sorry to hear about the poor ducks I thought they were so entertaining to watch
From the picture, it looks like a great time was had by all. Sorry Indie will miss her evening swim taking the ducks off the pond and putting them to bed. The dairy farm looks like it had fallen into neglect, A A Milne’s Ee-Orr would love all those thistles. Well at leat it probably is parasite clean for sheep.
Also think if you put the ducks in the house every night build them a raised house (a lil shed to high for any fox to climb up and have a removable plank to walk ip and down in the morning and night with a guillotine type door that locks open and closed so the fox could not possibly get in at all..
No there not it’s humans that have built in there garden and when they do something we go mental it’s the same as sharks if they attack we go on the kill.
Not silly at all.. happened to us also we had chickens and ducks in our 50ishm long x6m wide garden.. 2x fox got in and had all of them in the end.. bloody awful! The duck eggs will still be fertile I would have thought.. they have a long line of eggs growing in the lady bits.. if you dispatch a hen or female duck you can see the cycle it's kinda crazy.. 1st egg in line has a full shell the next 3 go smaller in side and less hard shell.. etc efc to the size of a pea.. like 15 eggs in a row..
