Brought in 34 ducks, another ~60++ more to come. With the goat/chicken coop and cottage done, the third and final structure completed in 2020 was the duck coop. I started the new year by bringing in the ducks to manage another section of the farm. This section is the lowest part of Zone Taylors and has a pond, hence, ducks would be a natural fit to maintain the vegetation here. Due to the challenging sloping terrain and limitation in space, the roughly RM 8,500 coop can’t be any bigger.
I felt like a saviour liberating these ducks from their previous owner’s extremely deplorable and squalid living condition. Half of these birds were purchased a little over market price, a mistake that goes into my lesson toolbox. With lack of info and a somewhat urgent need to quickly establish a flock, I had to go with this “recommended” contact. A learning process indeed.
The entry of these ducks and another 500+ kampung chickens in two weeks time is made possible with my iSinar EPF (retirement fund) withdrawal. It’s a scorchingly painful decision to make, a necessary one in the absence of financial assistance. I certainly feel like a loser who has committed a great crime by dipping into the “forbidden funds”. But it’s either sink or swim.
Now that’s a real EMERGENCY in its strictest sense!
