THREE DUCK EGGS!!  One chicken egg, and it belongs to Lucky Red.  When I went to check for eggs today, Lucky Red was sitting on a few flakes of straw that I stored under the roosting poles/poop deck.  No eggs in box 10, peculiar.  So, when I went back later, sure enough, I could see from the door an egg over there.  But when I got closer, and picked up Lucky's egg, there were three Indian Duck eggs with it!  YAY!!!  Am I crazy to be excited about finding three duck eggs?  Probably so.  It's the simple things.  I just thought maybe she had stopped laying them.  Nope, she started hiding them!

I fed the flock left over soup tonight.  I could watch chickens eat and play with their food for quite some time.  They steal from each other and take off running with it.  It's a free for all food fight!  The left over soup was my aunt Edith's Cabbage Soup recipe.  Very good and a little peppery.  They must not mind the pepper.  Chester watches his hens get their fill, then he'll have his turn.  Old fashioned kind of guy.

Today Sam shucked some corn while I was gone getting my hair cut, and he threw it to the chickens.  The ducks absolutely love the silks!   There's still a few butternut squash out there to pick up.  I'm thinking squash pie.

The girls are back in the cage tonight.  They are still too curious and rug hungry to leave that many hours at a time, yet.  Our neighbor, Gail, noticed tonight when we went for an out front yard spin how fast they are growing.  They sure are, and trying new things everyday!  Maezee found her grown up voice today and so she tried it out on everything that moved or made a sound, like the 6pm train running through Schutz Mill.  Surely she's heard that before, but with her new found bark, three times fast, she had to alert everyone about that train.  Jewel is still just barking the one bark at a time, but probably not for long now.