Flock Friday for May 7

For Flock Friday this week, an assortment of chicken and duck pictures, plus more of nesting ducks and broody chickens.

Let’s start with some pictures of the chickens:

Chickens

Chickens

Chickens

Chickens

And ducks:

Ducks

Ducks

Ducks

Ducks

Ducks

Ducks

Here’s Betty nesting on her clutch of eggs in the duck house:

Duck house

Sonja has also started laying some eggs in a different nesting box:

Duck house

Two of Sonja’s eggs:

Duck eggs

Yesterday I needed to refill the duck food dispenser (the jug at the top of the feeder tube), so had an opportunity to peek at Betty:

Duck food and Betty

I try not to disturb her too much, as she huffs like she’s stressed when I open the door, unsurprisingly. But she relaxes after a few seconds once she realizes I’m not a threat to her nest:

Betty nesting

Closer:

Betty nesting

Some of the chickens want in on the fun; there are currently three broody chickens… though they’re wasting their time, since we haven’t had a rooster in years, so the eggs are unfertilized:

Broody chickens

Broody chicken