The Living Green Farm Journal

Moving into Winter

Again, my apologies for the long delays in between posts. Right now I'm lucky to get one day a week to walk around the farm, let alone participate in any of the fun activities. I did manage to send Nate out with the camera to take some pictures and I will faithfully try to provide some captions to the photos!


Duckies have been enjoying spending the last few months in the orchard. In the mornings and evenings they have several minutes of free range foraging all over the orchard. They splash through any puddles they can find and sift through the loose mud and muck. Any rotting fruit that attracted insects is now a rich buffet. They've learned very well how to pen themselves up at night. Nate opens one of the panels, and all of the duckies rush out into the orchard. They sift and hunt and quack. Nate usually goes down to milk at that point. When he returns to the orchard after milking the ducks have waddled themselves down to their night pen. All they need is a refill on water and food and someone to latch them in! The duckies are not laying eggs right now, which is a big gap in my diet. We suspect they aren't laying because we haven't turned a light on for them. We went to plug in their florescent light and found that because of the electrical problems that occurred during solar set up we do not have power out to the barn. The solstice is only six weeks away now, at which time egg production should dramatically increase. So maybe we will just wait and try to figure out a more natural system for next winter, or perhaps fix the power to the barn.
Channa on 11.10.07 @ 09:46 PM PST [more...]