Author Archives: Carol

Chicks have a partial moult where they lose their baby feathers and get their adult feathers in. We have only had the five amigos for three weeks but when we first got them they all had tails. Since then Vanilla … Continue reading →

Three days ago Ebony spent most of the day in the nest box coming out just a couple of times for food and water and a quick dust bath. I wondered if she was going broody but at the end … Continue reading →

We have had the five amigos for three and a half weeks now, four weeks on Wednesday. It seems like longer because they have integrated so quickly and easily. They are also growing quickly. I have been a bit nervous … Continue reading →

Speckles has been moulting forever! She has also had a really poor year as far as egg laying goes. Last year she laid 27 eggs which isn’t a great total. This year she has only laid 12 eggs. In March … Continue reading →

Ebony and Flame are so in sync with their egg laying that they both want their favourite high nest box at the same time. Ebony takes longer to lay her egg than Flame does so sometimes Flame joins Ebony in … Continue reading →

Yesterday we took a trip to Whitehouse Farm. This is where we get our disposables and is also is where we have rehomed some of our girls in the past. We rehomed Peaches and Barley at the farm last spring, … Continue reading →

I love the late summer colour our sedums bring to the garden but ours would always fall open leaving a bare centre. In spring my husband had the idea of giving them some support. We found what he was looking … Continue reading →

The five amigos definitely like high up places. These little girls are very flighty and love to be high up. We got these girls three months after the silky girls so I am guessing that they are about three months … Continue reading →

I am writing this post in hindsight because we thought there was a problem with Dandelion and then it passed but I hadn’t got round to writing about it. Last Tuesday I could see that Dandelion didn’t look happy. She … Continue reading →

Last night when we checked on the girls after our evening meal several of the amigos were on the perch in their bedtime corner. Dandelion was also on this perch with them. By the time I had gone back indoors … Continue reading →