For Flock Friday this week, a bunch of pictures of our adult duck Bert, and a few chicken pictures.

Bert and Betty drinking water drained from the duck house:

Bert with the ducklings, when I first added the kiddie pool (remember that?):

Bert by my feet:

Bert by the duckling run, from across the pond:

Bert on the island:

Bert with ducklings on another day:

Bert on the island from the pond cam:

We gave the chickens some tasty slugs as treats, though they ignored them, at least while we were watching. Here’s Domino:

Sometimes an egg gets broken in a nesting box, which makes other eggs dirty. When we have plentiful eggs as now, I just toss the dirty ones, rather than laboriously clean them:

With warm weather in summer, I have the chicken coop windows open:

Some chickens visible on the roost above the nesting boxes: