Fowl News

A flock of Daffies, Donalds and Jemima Puddleducks have been living on one of the back paddocks the past few weeks. The noise of their arguments and chatter intersperse occasional bursts into flight when they take off and do a circuit before landing back down where they started. There surely is a fair amount of gossip going on and I am sure there are some interesting relationships too. When they fly overhead you can imagine what these are by the formations: two ducks are a devoted old married couple, three ducks are a threesome and a group of them are the swingers of the flock.


Gine leaves her babies at night to roost with the rest of the bantams in "the big house". Of her eight chicks five have survived, one male being taken by a rooster and the two white pullets having committed heni kari. Sarah is still taking care of her two offspring although they're nearly three months old. If she were human she'd be the sort of mother who is happy to have her kids living with her when they were in their fifties. Of these Twizel I am still undecided to as whether is a male or female. In the meantime the rest of the fowls are on strike and refusing to lay eggs while they have their annual moult. Threatening them with the pot has no effect as they already know I'm a vegetarian.