Relaxed Farming - our farm in your classroom

A glorious day with sunshine and a change of wind direction that gave us a light warm breeze: all perfect for drying off the ground and encouraging the grass to grow (which it is not doing, quite yet). We wandered around the smallholding and all was well. Neptune (pictured) and Jupiter are thoroughly enjoying being in the goat paddock and the lambs and sheep likewise in their new paddock where the grass is looking very green and fresh. We had TWO duck eggs today so two out of the three females are now laying!! The photo shows all three laid so far with the one in the middle a less sickly-looking colour than the other two and definitely more like what a duck egg should be. At the moment we are collecting the eggs to keep them clean and safe but in a week or so we may put them back in order to encourage one or more of the ducks to start going broody.
Incidentally, the clutch of eggs (see 26th March) the golden bantam had laid behind a house near the quail aviary was all eaten the night before last. We are not sure by what: could be a fox, badger, rat... The bantam has not laid there since. We are not overly worried as we have our four chicks that hatched on 28th March PLUS a friend is hatching some in her classroom (due in two days), and we are having any chicks that emerge back here with us. We gave her 18 eggs and so could get back quite a few chicks; therefore hatching more out at the moment would be a bit much.
The turkey eggs are now in an incubator so we are going to have our hands full when they hatch (if they do...). The incubation period for turkey eggs is 28 days; seven more than for chickens and Muscovy ducks take even longer, up to 35 days to hatch. So, we just need the geese to get sorted now: we have had no nest building or anything for several days - not sure why...