Sad, Sad, Sad...

Feeling really sad and damn mad... So much loss in a 4 day period. Started with our black runner duck. Next day, lost a guinea. Yesterday lost my favorite black bantam chick we even paid to have surgery on months ago b/c we love her so much. TODAY... We lost our only male runner duck. We thought he was a hen when we first got him as a duckling and named him Henrietta. The name seemed to fit and stuck. Included a pic of Henrietta as a duckling. Really upset with myself right now for not doing more to protect my babies. Killed an Opossum this morning and will kill any and all bird predators I catch/trap. Ordering electric bird "netting" to keep them in a prescribed area. Before today, they had been allowed to roam at will, but this hasn't worked for us. 2 of our guineas were hit by a car just 2 weeks ago... Only have one duck now. If our duck eggs that the chickens have been sitting on don't hatch, we will never have any Henrietta/black duck babies:(. 

I failed to mention our wonderful production red that was killed the same day/time as our little black bantam.... DAMN>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Missing Runner Duck

So sad... One of our black runner ducks came up missing yesterday when we put everyone up for the evening. We searched their popular "haunts" in the woods with no sign of her. We are going to head down the hill toward the creek today to search for feathers and predator hideouts. We are now down to only 2 ducks (one is a male). We have chickens sitting on eggs, and several are duck eggs, so we are hoping for some ducklings in another week or so. Farm life can be so cruel.