Author Archives: Carol

We are having a mini heat wave with a few days of slightly over 30 degrees. I could see the girls were hot as Snow was holding out her wings. I decided it was time to give the girls frozen … Continue reading →

Red has now gone broody again. She had laid eight eggs in twelve days which was exactly the same as last time. So now we have only Cloud still laying. I know that she will go broody again soon and … Continue reading →

I am getting to my wits end with trying to train the terrible twosome to go in at bedtime. I keep trying different things in the hope of something working. The night before last I decided that an hour before … Continue reading →

Mango is moulting and is looking very shabby. Her comb has also got paler. Cloud on the other hand still looks pristine and has a red comb. Yesterday I could see that Cloud was getting ready to lay. It’s been … Continue reading →

Red is now the only girl laying. She is laying two eggs every three days. This means that the nest boxes can be kept closed until Red is ready to lay. Red is easy to tell because when she is … Continue reading →

Snow has now gone broody after laying seven eggs in ten days. They seem to be going broody faster and faster. Gold has come out of her broody spell but it will probably be a week before she comes back … Continue reading →

Yesterday Storm joined Gold in going broody after laying twelve eggs in seventeen days. On the same day Red came back into lay after a break of eleven days. It constantly seems to be one in and one out and … Continue reading →

Over the last few days I have realised that Mango is moulting. I remembered that last year Mango and Cloud moulted after they had been broody a few times. I looked back at my photos from June last year and … Continue reading →

It’s been a slow process but we are getting there. The evening after my last post I made a mistake which set us back a bit. I barricaded in front of the covered nest box to try to stop Red … Continue reading →

On the first evening that Mango and Cloud were broody I closed the nest boxes before bedtime. When I went up before the pop hole closed to check on them they were in the corner of the shed as I … Continue reading →