Destructive Ducks?

It's been a couple of weeks since G planted some willow bushes along the fence in the duck pen. . 

At that time, he took away the fence blocking them from going into the front yard. The ducks have been behaving themselves. Or, they've at least stayed on our side of the fence. They do love eating the leaves at the bottom of the bushes. 

I hope they're not eating too much of them. It's too much gets eaten, the plant might not make it through the winter. G says that these plants are very hardy and the ducks won't be able to kill them.

The last batch of trampoline chickens are growing more and more comfortable with being set loose. They love to follow the goats around. We saw a chicken sitting on top of a goat one morning.

This one likes to dig through the goat food.

 

A neighbor gave us a few bushels of spilled corn to feed our animals. We've been giving the goats some every day now that the pasture is eaten down and winter is coming. The chickens like to get in on the morning feeding too!

We had a drizzly day last week, and almost all of the chickens were roaming the yard even amid the rain. I have never seen Dixie look so bedraggled. 😆 One of the roosters even roosted outside in the rain; he likes to roost on top of the milking stand we have outside the shed and the fact that it was raining didn't stop him. I was initially worried about them being out in the wet, but they know where shelter is and they can go inside if they want to, so they must want to be outside!