Author Archives: Carol

I was really, pleasantly, surprised today to find that Dandelion had laid an egg with a good shell. By a process of elimination it must be her egg. Cinnamon has laid two days running, yesterday and the day before, and … Continue reading →

Today we got the veg plot planted. It looks a bit pathetic at the moment but I will take a comparison photo when it has got going. We have early potatoes and main crop potatoes. We have runner beans and … Continue reading →

When I opened the chicken shed this morning to poop pick I found Dandelion’s first egg of the year. It was between her roost spot and the pop hole as if she had just dropped it on her way out … Continue reading →

This winter and spring the weather has been absolutely awful and then yesterday out of the blue we had an amazing sunny day. Speckles egg is on the left, Emerald’s egg is in the middle and Freckles egg is on the … Continue reading →

My efforts so far to change the bedtime habit haven’t worked. I have been lifting the two bigger girls from the perch over the hatch every evening at half past seven and putting them in. At least I lift one … Continue reading →

I had a feeling that Freckles was about to go broody. After laying her last two eggs she lingered in the nest box. When I lifted her out she accepted it and didn’t return to the nest box but she … Continue reading →

Dandelion has looked a bit brighter today and hasn’t gone to the nest box at all. Freckles and Cinnamon both laid their egg. Speckles sat in the nest box with a little heap of pine shavings on her back while … Continue reading →

Yesterday morning Dandelion seemed brighter first thing and she joined in with the morning sunflower seeds and had some mash. I decided not to bring her into the bathroom again as she was eating okay. As the morning went on … Continue reading →

The day we lost Apricot, Dandelion started to look really poorly. She didn’t even come for the bedtime corn which I knew was a bad sign. She went into the chicken shed to her usual spot but without Apricot this … Continue reading →

I had an awful shock yesterday morning to find that Apricot had died overnight. I went into the run first thing and straight away noticed that Apricot was missing. I assumed that she might be laying her first egg of … Continue reading →