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Recent updates

Cayuga and Call Ducks

[Humphrey the Cayuga drake] [Cayuga ducks]

Unfortunately our Cayuga numbers have been slightly depleted recently. Our beautiful drake along with one of his ladies (and also a hen) died in mysterious circumstances in May 2010. They had bite marks on the neck but the heads were still intact. We have hatched out a duckling but we are not yet sure whether it is male or female. We also have an incubator and a broody incubating some more duck eggs.

[Dot the Call duck]

Dot is a call duck who was dumped, along with another two, on the village pond here in Holybourne. One was then run over by a car, another disappeared (as a fox's dinner?) and Dot was left alone and making the neighbours reach for the earplugs. She was caught and brought round to us where she has already enjoyed her debut outing with MCFE to a residential home. Noisy? Sometimes, but very pretty with it!

[Beaky] [Call ducks]

She has now been joined by three others: Beaky (white), Charlie (white) and Horace (a drake). Dot & Horace had three ducklings in the spring; two of these were sold and the third has joined our birds.

[Horace the Drake]

The chickens, turkeys and ducks all live free range - inside an electric fence to protect them from foxes. There is a pond liner sheet filled with water for the ducks.