leafette's Blog

For the Birds
Nov 30, 2007 | 7:50 AM PST
My farmer is off to make things a bit warmer for the call ducks in their section of the coop.  Of course they are huddling in an outside corner!  So a bit of styrofoam will cut any drafts and a bit of a wall to keep their body heat from floating up and over to the chickens who happily do their thing on their side.  Grain has a habit of being spilled and there is lots for the local birds.  In fact just half a mile away is a seed plant that makes bird seed as a very lucrative side line.   He also trys to convince our turkeys to stay in the big barn with his ducks but they prefer to be outside.  They will even roost up on the low  hydro wire that runs between the two barns.   They are quite entertaining as they all try to keep their balance as another joins the row.  Then things get real interesting when one realizes it is facing the opposite way of all the others!  lol