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:
And ducks:
Here’s Betty nesting on her clutch of eggs in the duck house:
Sonja has also started laying some eggs in a different nesting box:
Two of Sonja’s 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:
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:
Closer:
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:
Have you thought of getting a rooster? How would the hens cope? Would you need more than one rooster?
We had a rooster for a while (accidentally). The hens weren’t overly thrilled. One would be enough, but we don’t want more chickens at this time.