Author Archives: Carol

Peaches was the last girl to moult and the last one to get her feathers back to normal. Her new breast feathers are almost fully grown but she has one patch of grey downy under feathers still peeping through. She … Continue reading →

At the moment we are really busy and it was just gone half past four when I found an appropriate moment in our work to slip up and check on the girls. To my amazement the automatic door had already … Continue reading →

After arriving home last night to find two out of three of the little girls had made it to their bedtime perch I felt that I should hold back from checking on the little girls and wait to see what … Continue reading →

Last night I was bit panicked about Pebbles. She was whistling as she was breathing. I put my post about her out this morning. You can see it here. This morning when I checked on her she was no longer … Continue reading →

I am sad to say that I have good news and some very bad news. I thought I was pretty clued up about chicken health but one of the observations from Terry from her former blog “Hencam” was that you … Continue reading →

We are still struggling with bedtime. The problem lays with the bigger girls not the little girls. The little girls know where they are supposed to go at bedtime and they want to go in the shed and get onto … Continue reading →

My husband thought it would be fun if I took a photo of Rusty with my rusty chicken. My rusty chicken is on the banner at the top of my blog and is the same size as Rusty. In the … Continue reading →

Yesterday I bought some pellets and filled up the bucket that I keep them in. One large sack of layers pellets fills three buckets but at the moment I am buying smaller bags of growers pellets which fill one bucket. This … Continue reading →

Peaches has had the quickest moult ever this year due to laying eggs for a month longer than usual. She dropped her feathers really quickly and had long pins underneath which have quickly started to open. She is now at … Continue reading →

After our pathetic potato crop our tomato crop is even more laughable, if that is possible! We grew one beef tomato plant and three cherry tomato plants. The beef tomato plant produced just five tomatoes and they were smaller than … Continue reading →