Picked up 4 silver Appleyard females that are almost 7 weeks old yesterday! They are in the brooder for the week and will hopefully get to go out into the foraging yard next weekend after my khaki girls have been able to run around for a bit there themselves so it’s a more neutral meeting space. If all goes well, I will be picking up a couple of Indian Runner mixes that are 2 years old an already laying the following weekend to transfer to the brooder for a week and then slowly integrate. That way I will get eggs for the summer! 🙂

See new silver Appleyard ladies below!

I was finally able to put up the fence and gate this weekend for the outdoor foraging space. I wrapped it around my outdoor fenced space that the dogs have so that the ducks can eat all the bugs and keep them from the dogs. They are natural pest control 😀

The ducks are in their outdoor pens with the pool now and will be there about a week. Next weekend, I plan to open the door and let them wonder out in the foraging space and then let the new silver Appleyard females out of their brooder and into the yard as well.

Hopefully there will be no issues since everyone is still pretty young and about the same age. Hoping they will accept eachother easily. 🙏

Pics below!

They are getting so big! This post is a little late since 4 weeks was on May 9th, but I’ve been doing a lot more yardwork now that spring/summer is blooming and trying to finish predator proofing the pens.

Enjoy!

I give the girls some shredded spring salad mix at night before lights out and they adore it as you can see! We will be trying frozen peas soon too.