Marksburg,
Wow, what a story and I'm sorry for your loss.
Pets of all types are dear to us.

I'm a portrait photographer and I have done two books of people and their pets.
Only one person brought in a chicken. Another brought in a parrot. But no ducks!

We got given these 6 chickens about 4 months ago. We had had ducks for a over a decade before that, but the raccoons, the coyotes and the eagles got 'em. Yes, eagles, like BALD eagles - they live down by the Sandy River near our house.

We didn't have problems for many years, but then our two outdoor labs, who lived with the ducks, got old and died, and then predators moved in.

So a couple years ago we gave away all our duck stuff and when our friend said we'd get 6 of his chickens, we had to (we got to!) build the tractor.

We have the chickens in the pen b/c of the predators. My wife just came in from shutting them up in their overnight coop.

BTW: We should race sometime - my 1996 Jag Vanden Plas does the quarter mile in x.xxx seconds (deleted due to national security concerns).


Cheers!

Charles