Author Archives: Carol

I have been waiting for a hamburg since last year. The breeder got ninety percent cockerels last year and couldn’t part with any hens so we decided to try again this year. This year she again got ninety percent cockerels … Continue reading →

Ebony hasn’t been the easiest of girls in our flock. She has always been a bit of a thug. Ebony won’t allow any of the little girls to be near her or especially the treats. She chases them and sometimes … Continue reading →

Yesterday my husband went to the allotment to collect the remaining strawberry plants that he had potted up from the runners and to dig out three more raspberry plants now that we have taken out our runner beans. He surprised … Continue reading →

Smoke went broody a few days after Sugar. With no girls laying I am keeping everything closed up and just opening the chicken shed at bedtime and closing it again in the morning. Seramas usually moult a bit at a … Continue reading →

Sugar has now set the record by going broody after just six eggs in eight days. The serial broodies usually lay for two weeks so one week laying is ridiculous! Smoke has laid eleven eggs in sixteen days so is … Continue reading →

On the last three mornings I have found a heap of feathers under Flame’s roost spot. Flame doesn’t look too bad considering how many feathers she is dropping. I think her new feathers have been quietly coming in underneath. Flame … Continue reading →

I think both bigger girls have finished laying for this season. Flame definitely has as she last laid a week ago. Last year she stopped half way through November. Ebony laid her last egg three days ago but had been … Continue reading →

I am finding heaps of, little girl, feathers in the chicken shed each morning and in the run especially in the dust bath holes. Yet the little girls don’t actually look much different. But there is a change in them … Continue reading →

We have had the worst August that I can remember. It has been cloudy and cold the for the whole month with drizzle some days and no sun at all. This weather seems to have triggered an early end to … Continue reading →

Our veg plot at home is no longer productive. Over the years we have lived here the garden has matured. The planting surrounding the veg plot blocks out a lot of sun and the roots have invaded the plot. This … Continue reading →