**Adding more ducks and chickens to the flock**

Last fall we traded some rabbits for ducks with a neighbor and this spring the ducks started laying eggs. They spent most of the summer trying to hatch the eggs and eventually successfully produced one little duckling.

After only a few days they rejected it forcing us to put it in a brooder and care for it. We bought a few more ducks to keep it company.

Since we were now servicing the ducks in the brooder we figured it made sense to follow up the ducks with some chicks too. So we loaded our incubator.

As soon as the chicks hatched the ducks were large enough to go out into the chicken compost system. We kept the chicks inside in a small brooder for about a week then moved them outside to a larger brooder. If all goes well, next spring we will have double the egg production!

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