Author Archives: Carol

Last Sunday I received some lovely Mother’s day flowers. Gorgeous purple tulips. I decided to take a photo and then take another one a week later to see if they open up a bit more. The single tulip in the … Continue reading →

Today Peaches was sharing a nest box with broody Butterscotch. This time there was no one in the other nest box though. The new trend seems to be to share with Butterscotch. I don’t know what Peaches was playing at … Continue reading →

Today Honey and Barley wanted to lay their eggs while broody Butterscotch just wanted to sit in a nest box. This was the result. This is good news because it means that if  we have a summer of Butterscotch going … Continue reading →

Since Butterscotch has been broody she has only taken a few seconds of dust flicking as her token dust bath. I haven’t seen her come out of the nest box on her own at all but I am getting her … Continue reading →

It’s funny how much easier it is to tell which egg belongs to which girl when there are more girls laying. When there was one egg and I hadn’t seen who was in the nest box it was really difficult … Continue reading →

During the winter when Butterscotch went broody I just closed all the nest boxes and after a few days she came out of it and continued spending her days with the rest of the flock as usual. Now though I … Continue reading →

Butterscotch is broody and spending most of her day in the nest box and the other girls are queuing up to get in to lay their eggs. Up until now they seemed unwilling to share a nest box but when … Continue reading →

Yesterday Emerald went into the nest box for the first time this year. Her tiny comb and her face are now quite pink. In winter her face is white. Emerald started laying half way through March last year so she … Continue reading →

Speckles loves to jump on me when I go through the gate. Unfortunately she blends into my dress and I am pulling a terrible face as I think I was talking but the fact that I can pick her up … Continue reading →

This morning Butterscotch laid her egg first thing as she always does after she has missed a day. A bit later Peaches was in the nest box. When I next checked Barley was also missing and it turned out that … Continue reading →