Author Archives: Carol

This time of year is the best for our garden. It’s when the rose peaks and the veg plot takes off and everything looks lush. Even the front drive has a splash of colour. I just love the garden at … Continue reading →

Freckles hasn’t laid for an entire month. As she is usually our best egg layer this seemed odd. She usually only takes a ten day break when she has gone broody but this time she hadn’t gone broody but just … Continue reading →

We have now had the chicks for two weeks and they have doubled in size. They were outgrowing the hamster cage and it was time to move them on to the next stage. Yesterday I started getting the dog crate … Continue reading →

I had such a lovely surprise yesterday evening when my lovely neighbour knocked on the door and was holding a beautiful flower arrangement. She said they were for me. I couldn’t quite believe such lovely flowers were for me! She … Continue reading →

Yesterday Speckles laid an egg after exactly three weeks break. Her poop seems less sloppy recently. I hope that laying an egg is a sign that whatever was going on with her is getting better. The egg on the right … Continue reading →

When the chicks get too big for the hamster cage they will have one of the nest boxes (actually called small animal houses) as their coop just we have always used before for this purpose. The draw back with this … Continue reading →

I know that I have done similar posts to this in the past but it still greatly amuses me how the little girls lay such different sized eggs. Cinnamon who is the smallest of the little girls lays the biggest … Continue reading →

We have now had the chicks for a week and I think they have almost doubled in size already. I needed to clean out the hamster cage. I poop pick every day and clean the water bottle and food dish … Continue reading →

The mixture of sun and rain has made the garden so lush. We have also taken out a lot of pulmonaria and replaced it with more interesting plants which has injected a bit of variety and colour. In the distance … Continue reading →

The chicks are visibly growing before our very eyes. They can jump up and down on the hamster cage platform with ease now. The two silkies are faster growing than the frizzle who is noticeably smaller than them at the … Continue reading →