Life has been busy here, making plans and working on the property and house. Little by little, the duck's house is complete, and heeeere it is.... The DUCKAGON It was made of materials left over from the barn. Our house is going t ...
We're continuing to make progress at the new Golden Gaits Ranch property. There's a lot of grass in the fields that is just begging to be enjoyed by the horses. However, the property is not fenced. I (Tim) started working a bit on fencing in order to ...
The ducks continue to grow, and are a lot of fun to watch. They’ve been in their new house and paddock area for about a week and a half now. They’ve got a small kiddie pool, and we gradually increased their “pool time” each day, until we began gi ...
Videos have been deleted from youtube. Leaving this post here as a placeholder in case I find a better host. Here are a couple of videos of the ducklings' first days: This one was taken June 5, the day after we got them: This was yesterday, ...
Here's a shot of the ducklings the day after we got them (above). The ducks are now one week old. All is going well, and the chores have now become habit. In addition to providing food & water, each day I clean out their brooder box. This pro ...
Our new batch of ducklings has arrived! They were hatched Tuesday, June 2 at Holderread Waterfowl Farm in Oregon, and shipped out that evening. After a postal service mishap in which the shipment was delayed, we found that they were sitting in Colora ...
The Wellington GGR Garden has now been passed on to its new caretakers. We've closed the sale on the house & property there, and the buyers will be taking over. Our address is no longer on Shoofly Lane. It's being deleted permanently from many da ...
An update on our little flock...We now have four ducks, 3 Welsh Harlequins and 1 Pekin; they are three years old. After several months of getting "dud" eggs pretty consistently, we finally determined one of the Pekins was throwing the duds ...
Fall 2013We still have 5 ducks. Three are the original Welsh Harlequins we got the spring of 2011. The other two are the pekins we got the summer of 2012 (they are the same age as our WH's).In July I began freezing some of the eggs, thinking th ...
OK, so I've pretty well neglected writing on this blog. But, if anyone is listening, I've just posted my garden plan for 2013 on growveg.com. The main garden can be seen here: MAIN GARDENThe three sisters plot is here: CORN-BEANS-SQUASHRight no ...