Author Archives: Carol

Emerald is laying really well at the moment. She generally lays every other day and lays four or five eggs a week. Emerald has a few unique traits and one of them is that she often gets a bit manic … Continue reading →

It seems to have taken forever for Butterscotch to get her head and neck feathers in but at last her pins are opening. I took a set of photos a few days ago to demonstrate this but I had other … Continue reading →

Yesterday Barley laid her egg too close to the ramp again. Once more it had rolled down the ramp on to the patio and cracked. I scrambled it and dotted it on top of a dish of mash. Is this … Continue reading →

We have poppies, amongst other things, self seeded around the garden but we had an empty pot that had held an annual last year and a yellow poppy has self seeded itself perfectly in the middle of this pot. It … Continue reading →

Toffee hasn’t laid an egg for two weeks now. I was wondering why she had stopped laying when suddenly she started moulting. It seems a bit early to be moulting. The game girls do have a short laying season and … Continue reading →

Until quite recently we have been having frosts in the morning so have held back from planting the veg plot. This week the weather has changed and at last we have been having lovely warm sunny days. It was time … Continue reading →

Yesterday we were at a garden centre buying what we needed for our veg plot (a post coming soon) when I spotted some turf. I just had to get one for the girls. I laid down the whole turf in … Continue reading →

I think at last Butterscotch is getting feathers on her head. We haven’t seen any pulling of pins for a while now which is really good. Butterscotch seems to have a mix of fluff and pins on her head at … Continue reading →

When we had Topaz and Honey in the flock the bedtime routine was a drawn out affair. The lower ranking girls would roost on the back perch then when Topaz and Honey went in they would peck at them until … Continue reading →

When my husband sweeps the path he often dumps the sweepings in the run for the girls to scratch through. Usually it is mostly leaves. At the moment there are also fallen blossom petals. The girls absolutely love blossom petals … Continue reading →