Author Archives: Carol

Sunday breakfast eggs before cooking. Marmite’s recent tiny egg is on the right. Marmite’s tiny egg had a really hard shell. I struggled to crack it and so ended up breaking the yolk which is why it looks oval in … Continue reading →

These larger snowdrops are much later opening up than the smaller, frillier, ones that I have photographed recently. They are just opening up at last.

Jasmine didn’t look happy yesterday afternoon and I thought that maybe she had an egg problem. I wondered if she was about to lay a soft shelled egg. At bedtime she was perched in her usual spot but looked odd … Continue reading →

Yesterday and today the weather couldn’t be more different than it was on Sunday when we walked to the allotment. Sunday was very cold but with the sunshine and a clear blue sky it was a lovely day. Yesterday and … Continue reading →

Yesterday we decided to take a walk to the allotment to see how long it takes. We had walked before but we were pushing our little grandson on his trike so it wasn’t a true test of how long it … Continue reading →

Marmite has laid a total of nineteen eggs since she started laying at the end  of December. Her first two eggs were really tiny and then her next one was normal sized. The day before yesterday Ebony, Spangle and Marmite … Continue reading →

I decided to do an end of month egg count while I am still able to see which girls are laying which eggs. Ebony laid 17 eggs in January. Smoke laid 17 eggs in January. Marmite laid 16 eggs in … Continue reading →

When we went to bed last night it was snowing. We have had quite a lot of snow. It is a bit milder this morning though. Saturday is forecast cold again at four degrees during the day and minus four … Continue reading →

This morning when I refilled the chicken’s waters it was still minus four degrees. There was the hardest frost that I can remember seeing. It is such a hard frost that it looks like snow. It looks beautiful but the … Continue reading →

The weather here has been very cold with night time temperatures of minus two to four which means the chickens’ water freezes. I seem to learn the hard way every year. If there is only a little ice on top … Continue reading →