Our yard 'lord' is Caesar, our Emden white goose. He lords over everyone, but is a real pussy cat when you catch him and pick him up. He tends to 'announce' anyone that comes into the yard, although he's a bit slow on the announcing bit. We usually know they are there before he see's them. 
We have a small group of black cochins, that turned out to be pets for us. They are so darling with thier poofy feathers, and their funny run, they seem to trot with their feet kicked out to the side. Cochins have feathered legs and feet, so its a bit like trying to walk with swim fins on, and if you're in a hurry....its so much fun to watch them!
The Indian Runner Ducks started as a pair I got this spring, Cocoa and Fudge. She is a dark brown and he is a fawn and white pencilled runner. We bought some ducklings too in the spring, and those two are Violet and Mystic. Violet is a soft brown cream all over. Mystic is like Fudge, light brown and white. Cocoa and Fudge layed a dozen eggs this spring and we put them in the incubator, and we hatched 12 babies. We lost one when it was young, but the others are outside now in a duckling 'tractor'. Its a house and a yard that is portable. We move it around the yard to give them fresh grass and a secure place to grow til they are old enough to march around the yard without the fence protection.
The blue, birchen and golden cochin bantams, we are hatching right now. We acquired hatching eggs at the beginning of June, and they were in the incubator on June 6th, the morning afte we got them. We have the beginnings of a whole mess of babies hatching in the next day or two.
We are also starting a cross mix for our new laying hens for next year. Above is a pic of them. Might as well grow your own birds when the technology exsists, right? Hence, our Buff Orpington rooster over with the egg layers (one Buff Orp female, 4 Rhode Island red's, and 7 New Hampshire Red hens) has been 'servicing the hens' so the eggs we get are fertile. We turfed some in the 'bator' to see what would happen, and hatched a small starting batch of 6 chicks. They are a gorgeous reddish buff coloured fuzz. Time will tell what they look like fully feathered. Also, we have lots of time to weed out the males and keep the females. They should be ready to lay come spring.
We have our chick brooder to show you yet, and the new coop we are building out of recorvered material.
It looks a bit hodge podge because of being from used materials, but its solid and sound. We used chicken wire between the 2x4's and the plywood all over the building to make it less easy to access by a predator. I wanted lots of light in it too, for the egg layers, as well as the regular chickens enjoying life better when they get more light than less. We made use of some old windows to make that possible.
