Relaxed Farming - our farm in your classroom

Our broody golden bantam has not proved to be as independent and self sufficient as we had hoped. Yesterday we commented that she would have to return to the summer poultry paddock to get her food and drink each day... well, she obviously is not, as this evening her crop felt almost completely empty. We therefore relented and put food and water in the stall where she is sitting on her eggs (and will remove it in the morning before too many birds realise it is there and coming flocking in). As you can see, she ate the corn with very little persuasion needed! When we took her off her nest and put her in front of the food we also found a sixth egg, laid this morning by one of the several chickens who still keep returning to the barn each day to lay!!! Our conclusion: we are the proud owners of chickens who don't know how to behave and basically do what they want!!
The turkeys and ducks are no better. Napoleana (our white turkey) at least managed to lay her egg in the right nest today with all the others BUT she is showing less and less signs of being broody. PLUS we found three cracked eggs in the nest and all the remaining ones are now covered in mud from her feet (it has been VERY wet again today).
Orange (Muscovy duck) laid her egg in the right nest as well BUT she too is showing no more signs of going broody despite plucking down from her chest several days ago to start covering the eggs. We do think the weather is having a bad effect: today it has been coming form the north which has made it very cold as well as wet: not great for the start of April...
PS - no news from our two remaining dairy goats due to kid any day now - both are looking heavy and tired - we are sure we won't have to wait long!!!