Author Archives: Carol

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 →

Two girls laying that is. Red has now gone broody too so we only have Gold and Storm laying. I am sure there has never been a previous year where we have had so few girls laying for such a … Continue reading →

In all our years of chicken keeping this has never happened before. We went up yesterday afternoon and there were no chickens in the run, empty run! They were all in the three nest boxes. Mango and Cloud have now … Continue reading →

Snow went broody two days ago after laying seven eggs in eleven days. Meanwhile Storm came back into lay the day before yesterday after a three week break. Gold came back into lay yesterday after an eleven day break. This … Continue reading →

Sugar was our longest lived and our last serama. She had virtually every chicken problem our flocks have ever had and yet she came through every thing, she was very resilient. Despite being one of our smallest girls Sugar had … Continue reading →

Sugar was five and a half years old and we had known there was something adrift with her for the last two and a half years as she spent a lot of her time sitting but she just kept going. … Continue reading →

After a break of ten days Red is back in lay. It will be good to have her slightly bigger eggs again. We now have four girls laying. Gold is taking her time coming out of her broody spell. When … Continue reading →

The day after Snow came back into lay Gold went broody. It really has been one in and one out constantly this year. I don’t remember such a broody year as this but I wonder if it’s because we have … Continue reading →