Author Archives: Carol

The last few days have been 90 degrees f (32 degrees c) which is unusually hot for us. It’s the hottest June for twenty years and the hottest days of the year so far. The one thing I have learned … Continue reading →

At the moment we have just the little girls laying. They are all laying approximately every other day. Below are the last six day’s eggs. Rusty’s and Freckles eggs are round and beige. Cinnamon’s are oval and beige. Dandelion and … Continue reading →

Emerald is dropping feathers all around the run. There are lots of feathers under her roost spot each morning. Her under feathers, the one on the left, now have a lot of white on them. Her outer feathers, the one … Continue reading →

Yesterday was the hottest day this summer so far and this time Rusty, and, Dandelion and Cinnamon were in the sun with their beaks open. This is my first summer of having seramas and I am beginning to think that … Continue reading →

I love the harmony in the flock as it is now. When I throw out some sunflower hearts the girls happily peck at them together. I love to see them sharing like this without any chasing. They are such a … Continue reading →

We are going through a bit of a heat wave at the moment and yesterday was particularly hot and sunny all day. A few times I checked on the girls and found Rusty like this. It would be easy to … Continue reading →

We cut down the apple tree in the chicken run a few years ago. It had got much too big for the run. Since then it has sprouted and then been nibbled away again. The sprouting leaves have never had … Continue reading →

Speckles and Emerald stick together whether it’s perching together, dust bathing together or sitting, either in the sun or the shade, together. Freckles usually joins Rusty in a dust bath but she was busy in the nest box. Apricot is … Continue reading →

Yesterday there were just two eggs in the nest box. They were Speckles and Apricot’s eggs, so the biggest and the smallest. I wasn’t sure that Speckles was going to continue laying after her last whopper. That was just over … Continue reading →

Rusty and Freckles seem to be taking turns at going broody. So far I have only had one broody at a time. Rusty has laid seven eggs in fourteen days and laid yesterday. Today she kept going to the nest … Continue reading →