goats

We raise many chickens at the orchard.  Each year you may see some different varieties because with having kids, they cant wait to go and buy new chicks during the chick season.  On average we have about 50 chickens at the orchard that are usually all egg laying.  I am no expert at sexing a chicken so we do end up with roosters sometimes.  Although, we try to only have one rooster, sometimes there are more until we can find homes for them.  The picture above is Hehe, yes just like in Moana.  He thinks he is really big and mighty, but he is only a third the size of our normal egg laying hens.  It is not unusual to see some of the chickens out of the pen, they kind of do what they want and wont hurt anyone.  When we do have eggs available, we do offer them at our store.

We started with a pair of ducks and we grow every year. Our kakhi ducks love to be moms.  Unfortunately living in the country we don't have excellent luck with raising ducklings but we have learned.  We took three ducklings into our home this year to raise them and our oldest daughter, Anala, has one duckling named Darbarg that has imprinted on her.   The ducks love to play in the water and swim in their pool!