Ok, day one...

8am
Today I ventured into 'duck land' (my fenced pond and pen) to see how all were (it's been an eventful week - Waldo drowned one of my new Khaki Campbell (KC) girls having sex with her on Friday.... cue 2 replacements found pronto, only for one of them to freak out on Saturday (on reflection maybe I should have taken my aviator sunglasses off) scale a 6ft fence and scarper - lost KC now in the village...great!) So anyway, all ducks are currently in a pen within a pen 'getting to know each other' before being released onto the 40ft pond. But there is a water bowl stand off with the Indian Runners (IR) at one bowl and KC's at the other...it's like this in their house - an invisible line held by Waldo who just goes from duck to duck...hoping they are ok as normally they practically stampede to get out of their house.


Sheep are fine - now that my youngest orphan Hiltz (have you watched The Great Escape?!) is off milk it's taken a while (6 days) for the penny to drop and realise the water bowl is for drinking and sheep nuts actually are food - the light bulb moment happened yesterday (making up for a pretty rubbish duck weekend.) I am hopeful she now will make more effort to become part of the flock as at the moment she's always alone and doesn't make friends easily (not surprisingly she isn't friends with Horsley who she tried latching onto.... think male dog...) Bless her, she was born with an absent Mum and brain I think...


Will check on all later on...


Weather: cold (13) and raining


Mx