Author Archives: Carol

When the weather is awful as it has been recently the girls spend a lot of their time in the shelter. It’s Sugar’s favourite place during winter and the rest of the girls tend to gather around her. Mango and … Continue reading →

I have had to do this right at the end of the year this year as Red is still laying. Sadly we lost Salmon and Dot this year. We lost Salmon on 22nd February when she couldn’t lay her first … Continue reading →

It’s become a Christmas tradition for the girls to have a fish treat on Christmas morning. We had smoked salmon omelette for breakfast and they had sardines in olive oil. They look very happy enjoying their fish. They also have … Continue reading →

I would like to wish all my readers and their families a lovely Christmas and a very happy New Year and to thank you for reading my blog and commenting which means so much to me. XX

Autumn is unfortunate having such a heavy moult so late in the year. But she does have lots of pins and her bottom now has short fluffy feathers. Autumn still looks really shabby but at least she is on the … Continue reading →

Autumn is having the worse moult we can remember. She looks very tatty, is still dropping feathers and is a mass of pins. It’s been a few days since I stopped spraying Autumn’s legs and feet. So far she has … Continue reading →

Autumn is having the most tatty moult we have seen for many years. She is having the latest moult we have seen for many years too. I thought Autumn was over the worst of her moult as the feather dropping … Continue reading →

Portraits of the girls in the order I that took them. Red is very stop and start with her egg laying. An odd pattern seems to have emerged. She laid three eggs in a week then took a seven day … Continue reading →

Autumn is now moulting big time. There are clouds of feathers wherever she has been. Trust her to wait until the start of the colder weather to moult. I decided to give the girls some fish to boost their protein … Continue reading →

The good news is that Red is back in lay again. She laid today on the third day after her last egg. We will be having her eggs for our weekend breakfast. The bad news is that Autumn is back … Continue reading →