?? Spring??

Very little snow remains on the ground.  In its place, we have mud.  Lots and lots of mud.  We also still have ice, as it drops below freezing at night.  So, areas that were snow melt down during the day, then freeze at night into ice.  Needless to say, its a muddy, muddy  mess.

Awhile back, the chickens split into 2 groups.  Half of them remain hanging out in their own coop (which is a Lowe's shed).  The other half have claimed the ducks house.  I have no idea what caused this split up.   However, they all are laying in the chicken coop.

With the days getting longer, the chickens are again laying, and the ducks have started to lay.  I don't use artificial light, so we get few eggs during the winter.

Since there is a gang of chickens in the ducks house, the ducks have revolted and are now just laying their eggs where ever they happen to be when the urge to lay strikes.   They are fully capable of running the chickens out, but they don't.

So, today when I went out, I found the chicken eggs in the chicken coop in the nesting boxes where they belonged.  And, the duck eggs were scattered all over, in the mud.