Make way for ducklings!

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This is an impregnable chicken coop currently housing two Corned Rock roosters, four Corned Rock hens and one Black Asian hen. You can hear the roosters crowing all day long and well into the late afternoon. The electric fence was there when we first settled the birds into the coop. Now they range far and wide but always come back to the fort at night to roost.

The weathervane sits on top of a brick cistern that forms Chardonnay Hill.

The cistern supplied water to the cows in the big barn. It’s about 16 feet deep and 8 feet in diameter, shaped like a hive. It’s on the highest point of land on the farm.

Ducklings

Blue runner ducklings, to be precise. Eleven of them. They were born on March 25th and arrived at the East Kingston Post Office on the 26th. Everyone on the farm seems to have a soft spot for ducks so we’ve started this small flock just for fun. Admittedly keeping them warm for the first few weeks has had unintended consequences, but now they are outside in their own coop and soon we expect to see them out and about on the farm, joining our even smaller flock of chickens. We’ll be posting about these birds and other, wilder varieties—because of our proximity to Powwow Pond and the swamps that comprise much of the farm, we are a birder’s paradise—periodically.

NOWStephen RoxburghApril 10, 2019ducklings, eggs