Author Archives: Carol

I can’t believe that in the comments of my last post I had just said that Flame was brighter. I think it was her last hurrah! This often seems to happen with chickens. They seem to have a last day … Continue reading →

I have known for a while that Flame was coming to the end of her time. I have been putting off posting about this and putting off making a decision about Flame. Throughout this summer Flame has spent a lot … Continue reading →

I thought it would be fun to give the girls a yogurt treat and try to get our first group photos of all ten girls. Since the weather has cooled Diamond has been sitting less often. It’s only when sitting … Continue reading →

This is a very sad post that I have been putting off writing for quite some time. I have gone through the emotions of feeling that we are really unlucky to feeling upset to ultimately feeling sad. On the day … Continue reading →

On Sunday Dot laid an egg for the first time in three months. When she came to us in May she laid three eggs each six days apart and then stopped and started moulting. Now she has stopped moulting and … Continue reading →

Recently we have had just one girl, that being Snowflake, laying out of eight girls and I have had to buy eggs. Eggs aren’t the most important thing to me but even so it would be good to have some … Continue reading →

We are once again experiencing unusually high temperatures for us. It has been 33/34 degrees c which is low 90’s degrees f. This time we have had a week of these temperatures and they are forecast to continue to the … Continue reading →

The five days of tylan in the water are now finished and Flame is looking back to normal. I really hope that this time she will stay well. There is still a lot of moulting going on. There was a … Continue reading →

A few days ago we noticed that Flame was sitting with her head under her wing. A little later I noticed that she had her right eye closed again. I was gutted as I thought that we had got her … Continue reading →

I realised recently that if we hadn’t added the three newer girls in February we would have had hardly any eggs this year. Salmon hasn’t laid at all this year which was actually a relief as it has meant that … Continue reading →