OH MY GOSH YAAAY. I'm so SO happy for you guys. I can't handle how cute that is, with the duckling sitting on her shoulder like that (she looks so proud, too).

And we totally agree with you on being self-sustaining, in addition to self-raising, when it comes to food. It's a robust system that can support itself like that, and it's exactly what we hope to achieve someday as well.

I've been thinking about you all a lot, recently--we just added two new ducks to our weird little flock, and one of them is a Muscovy-Pekin mix. We just learned today that she's a "mule," so we won't be getting any viable eggs from her, but I'm hoping she'll be good at brooding!