They don’t look like little peeps anymore! Our big boy started feathering out a couple days ago. He’s quite the personality. Basically, it’s ‘all about’ him. He thinks he’s pretty hot stuff. Continue reading
Tag Archives: ducks
Loss
The fox took Bo Peep into our narrow wood line. After a search and rescue through brambles, my husband found a pile of white feathers in the center. That’s all that was left of her. We’ve changed our routines, ensuring a human or dog is out in the yard at dusk. Save locking my fowl … Continue reading
Blended Family
Our Muscovy hen, Little Bo Peep, was taken by a fox at dusk this week. This is our first, and hopefully last, run in with a fox. In our years of keeping fowl, this has never happened. It took a few minutes, and finding a trail of white feathers leading to the wood-line, for it … Continue reading
Muscovy ‘Ducks’
Little Bo Peep, our Muscovy hen, has been sitting on a clutch for weeks now. She took up under our pirogue boat. I should have candled the eggs while she was laying the clutch because now she’s hardly off them. Since I didn’t, I won’t know if the eggs are viable until she reaches the … Continue reading