Duckduckduck!
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♥Jun. 16th, 2014 // 11:06 am♥
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We herded the girls into the front garden today, with a bit of help from Jodie.
(Actual video, not time lapse.)
They seem happy enough. It didn't take them long to find the patch of grass under the bird feeder and start picking through it for left-overs. I'm sure that I saw Gytha noshing a slug, too: she had a bit of trouble when it got stuck to her beak, but she managed it in the end! |
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Strange happenings in the woods....
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♥Jun. 16th, 2014 // 02:53 pm♥
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The woods are full of mysterious symbols! When we took Jodie up there for her walk, we kept coming across white powder on the floor. Sometimes it was just blobs by the side of the path, but at the junctions there were circles, and at random other places there were T-shapes (usually where there was no distinguishing feature on the path).
Either someone had taken exactly the same route as we did or they'd been on all the paths. Mike hypothesised that someone was having a session mapping the paths for Open Street Map (although they're almost all on there already) and wanted to keep track of which bits they'd already done.
We spotted a couple of pyramidal orchids as we walked back along our lane. That's three varieties so far:
More ducks! They get their corn (in a bowl of water to keep the wild birds off) on the way in after Jodie's walk. Esme was a bit more dubious than the others about staying so close to me.
Which reminds me that I was meaning to check how much they should be getting fed. They eat everything that I put down for them, but I'm not sure if they'd do that anyway. They're laying less than they should, but then they're young and I think Esme hasn't started yet.
The internet is unhelpfully vague. Lots of people list, in great detail, the feed that they give, including brand names and the fact that they give a measured quantity twice per day, but they don't say what the bloody quantity is, except where they say that they just feed ad-lib.
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People saying 1/4lb, and 4-6oz, and 6-7oz: well, similar ballparks. But runners are on the small side for big ducks, and they're wandering around eating bugs all day, too: other people are saying that they shouldn't need feeding at all if they're 'genuinely free range', which I suspect ours are. Hmm.
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Aha: the people who sell Eglus have an actual *table*, with amounts by weight of duck! A radical concept! They reckon 160g. Right. I shall go with that: must remember to take the scales out with me in the morning, so that I can see how much I've been feeding them!
Right, then! |
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