Author Archives: Carol

Yesterday I went up to the chicken run with my camera and just happened to catch Shadow laying her egg. This was her fourth egg, in just under two weeks, since she started laying. This time she was in a … Continue reading →

Shadow has now laid three eggs which I saved for today’s breakfast. I used them for scrambled egg as I could put all three together for a one person portion. I wanted to crack Shadow’s eggs into the bowl first … Continue reading →

I say that it’s our first, three egg day of the year, but it’s also our first, more than one egg day, of the year as well. This morning Smoke laid her second egg this month. She laid her first … Continue reading →

Ebony is getting ready to lay again and has been practising over recent days. Smoke doesn’t need to practise. When Smoke is ready to start laying she just settles in a nest box and gets the job done. It’s a … Continue reading →

When Shadow started to squat for me a few days ago I knew that she was getting ready to start laying. Yesterday Shadow was very vocal and was going in and out of the nest boxes. Shadow went in the … Continue reading →

I have never posted so infrequently but there really hasn’t been much to post about recently and the weather has been awful. It seems to swing between being really wet or really cold. We have had weeks of rain and … Continue reading →

I have talked recently of how sometimes the flock seems to divide into two parts of bigger girls together and little girls together. There are other times when the flock are very definitely all together. The weather has recently made … Continue reading →

Yesterday it snowed from nine o’clock in the morning until twelve o’clock lunch time. The flakes were the biggest we have ever seen and the snow was the sort that sticks together and settles quickly. It was quite dark in … Continue reading →

Although our flock of nine girls get on together very well and are often all together there are also times when they are a flock of two parts. Sometimes the three bigger girls will be perched together while the smaller … Continue reading →

There isn’t a lot going on in the chicken run at the moment. It’s an in between time of year. Shadow and Sugar are showing an interest in the nest boxes. They like to spend time on the ramps pecking … Continue reading →