Author Archives: Carol

I often think that one of the things myself and the chickens have in common is our love of sitting in the sun and being able to find a patch of sun to sit in. The girls will find a … Continue reading →

Speckles hasn’t laid an egg for two and a half weeks. She has been growing back her feathers after being plucked which has been like having a mini moult. For the last four or five days she has sat in … Continue reading →

Apricot  has just laid her first egg. It turns out that she isn’t a squatter as she still doesn’t squat when I hold my hand over her. I thought she had gone in the nest box for her usual practice. … Continue reading →

Yesterday Emerald was in the cat box when Dandelion wanted to lay her egg. As usual she did a bit of shouting before deciding on which spot she wanted to lay her egg. When I checked and she wasn’t in … Continue reading →

I wasn’t going to photograph our rose this year because I have already photographed it many times before. But then I changed my mind because I wanted to see if it would look better with my new camera.   It … Continue reading →

Emerald and Speckles have become quite a twosome. They are often perching or sitting together. Emerald now has several white feathers under her wings which I think are a sign of her age. She has always liked to stretch her … Continue reading →

Since I put the cat box in the shed as an extra nest box, Emerald has laid every one of her eggs in there. She seems to prefer the cat box. Freckles also lays her eggs in there. Speckles laid … Continue reading →

Apricot is getting ready to start laying eggs. She went into the nest box for about an hour today. I think she is practising and hopefully this means her first egg will be in the nest box. Her comb is … Continue reading →

I am still experimenting with my new camera. When I saw two bees inside a poppy flower I thought I would see if the camera would pick this up. Yes! You can see two bees working the poppy. As I … Continue reading →

Speckles hasn’t laid an egg for two weeks now. I believe this is because she is growing her head feathers back in and like when moulting she can’t lay eggs and grow feathers at the same time. Nobody has told … Continue reading →