We have been ridiculously busy and I haven’t had time to blog. We did an afternoon tea on our vintage crockery for a hundred and fifty on Thursday for a school speech day. It took up the entire day and we didn’t get home until gone half past six. Yesterday after deliveries and shopping the afternoon was spent washing up the crockery and matching up the trios and packing it away again. It was a mammoth task and very time consuming.
I feel as if every post recently has been concentrated on Caramel and didn’t want it to appear that I have now stopped bloging, but there has just been no time.
Since we lost Caramel, Pebbles has found her way to her bedtime perch each night and has been holding her own within the flock.
She is really bright and has soon cottoned on to me giving her sunflower hearts or corn on the patio while I throw it out into the run for the other girls. They chase her away so I drop a bit on the patio and she comes to my feet to wait for her share.
She has also sussed out that she can have the morning spinach on the patio to herself once the other girls have moved away.
She sits near the other girls but not with them. This is typical.
The whole flock perched up
The old girls are all on this side of the run
And Pebbles is on this side
Pebbles is at the end of the run near the other girls but on the other side of the run from them. It’s good to see her almost with them but also hard to see her apart from them too.
Sophie made a comment, gave me her email and is giving me contact with breeders of seramas, she has five seramas herself. I really want to get two more to add to the flock to keep Pebbles company. The breeders she got her girls from are at quite a distance from me but I am working on how to get round this.
Watch this space. I am determined to try to get some more seramas to add to the flock and make a better balance within the flock. They could then perch together at bedtime, keeping each other warm in winter, and keep each other company within the flock. I will keep trying and will update as I go along. Thank you Sophie for all your help with this.
Pebbles is a little character and is doing okay but I would dearly love to give her some little companions.
I will also update about the moult soon. Speckles looks quite different after her moult and Toffee seems to be having a second moult and is dropping her long feathers. It is also time to worm the girls again so I will be starting on that today.
Lots to catch up on and I will be back soon.
Click here to see the history of my flock.
Hope you can get some company for Pebbles.
I am working on it. Sophie and Rebecca (her breeder) have been trying to find a breeder near me and Rebecca has just given me the details of someone in Slough. He works shifts so I need to wait for him to contact me but I am hopeful. Fingers crossed.
I have just called Dave. He is nearer to Colnbrook which is about forty minutes to an hour away but much nearer than Rebecca.
He has plenty of seramas including buff ones (like Caramel) and we are going over at half eleven tomorrow. I am so, so, excited. Sophie and Rebecca have been amazing, helping me with this and I feel that I have found a new friend in Sophie.
There will be plenty more blog posts coming.