Author Archives: Carol

Recently there has been the usual surge of hormones that comes with the start of egg laying and it always causes spats to take place. Dandelion picks her battles carefully but Cinnamon does not. Cinnamon was over confident and rushed … Continue reading →

When I lift Smoke out of the nest box she will stay in position on the patio for a while so I am now putting her straight into the run. When I do this she holds up her wings and … Continue reading →

I now have no doubt that Smoke is broody. Smoke didn’t lay yesterday so she went into her favourite middle nest box first thing this morning as I expected. She was making the, chuff chuff, broody sound as she went … Continue reading →

Yesterday we had our first, four egg day, of this year. Up until then we had been getting two or three eggs a day most days. Jasmine has only laid one egg so far and that was six days ago … Continue reading →

For the last three days I have thought that Smoke might be going broody and yet for the last three days she has laid an egg. I would notice that she had been in the nest box for a long … Continue reading →

Late this afternoon it started snowing. I love the contrast of the red berries and the snow. It very quickly covered the garden but luckily an hour later it had stopped. I say luckily as it doesn’t take much snow … Continue reading →

I have on occasion seen Spangle fly on to the top of the store cabinet and then fly down to the run from there. She is the only girl that I have seen do this. The space between the top … Continue reading →

I thought a fish treat would be good for the girls as a bit of extra protein to help those feathers through for some of them. It also gives me a chance to get a group photo as they all … Continue reading →

We have our laptop on a corner of our kitchen worktop. Probably not a conventional position but it suits me. I pass it every day from any room to the cabin outside the back door which is our catering work … Continue reading →

Eggs are coming thick and fast at the moment. This morning when I poop picked the chicken shed I found another egg, this time under the silky girls’ perch. As Jasmine has been practising and I have never seen Sienna … Continue reading →