Will a rooster protect ducks
that are part of his flock?
I think it would depend on
the rooster.
Our rooster seems somewhat
indifferent to ducks. I’ve observed him leaving the ducks by themselves
to tend to one of his ladies. He might attack a predator that is
threatening his flock and the ducks, but I doubt if he would intervene
if a hawk was trying to eat one of our ducks.
It took a while, but our
ducks finally started laying in the duck
nest box.
The one problem is dirty
eggs. The next duck that comes in has dirty feet and transfers some of
that mud and dirt to the eggs that were there before.
Maybe some sort of egg alert
system could notify a human to go get an egg before the next duck
decides she needs to lay one?
The shape of galaxies and the
arrangement of leaves on a plant stem are both examples of how the
Golden Spiral can be expressed in nature.
Is there any Golden Spiral
geometry in a backyard chicken?
Nothing has been discovered yet,
but Marchelo gets my award for the most
mathmatically inspired chicken tractor by building his poultry sculpture
in a way that mimics the Golden Spiral.