Relaxed Farming - our farm in your classroom

Our growers' area gets ever fuller as the chicks, ducklings, turkey poults and goslings we have raised this year all continue to 'grow' and in many cases, reach the size of their parents. We cannot really call the remaining ducklings by that name now. They may be only nine weeks old but our four remaining females are as big as mum and the males are much bigger.
Our youngest chicks are now over six weeks old and the biggest are already the size of our bantams. There is one amongst them, the pretty gold faced chick in the first photo, who is smaller and we think she IS a bantam so when she gets as big as her siblings are now, she will probably stop growing!
Our Legbars (last photo - female in front and male behind) are now almost ten weeks old and still spend some of their time with one of their mums, the Light Sussex, although at night they snuggle up with each other (as shown here). The goslings are just HUGE and are simply walking 'poo machines'. They eat an awful lot of grass and so make an awful lot of poo the other end!!
The social behaviour of the chicken is brilliant. Even at 20 weeks old, our first set of chicks from this year (some of whom are now laying) still stay together as a group during the day (on and off) and still roost together at night! It's wonderful!
And then there is this mad broody: middle photo! She is another of our Light Sussex birds and three days ago went broody in the egg basket. We don't intend to breed any more chicks this year and so we moved her and the basket and hoped that might do the trick. Nope, she is now broody on top of our medicine box (it's on the same table as the egg basket was) and is more than happy to give you a swift peck if you go anywhere near her... Plan B needs putting into action tomorrow, just need to think of it first...