Author Archives: Carol

Butterscotch has been broody for just under two weeks. The last few days she has been staying out of the nest box for longer and I could tell she was coming to the end of her broody spell. Yesterday morning … Continue reading →

Every time Butterscotch goes broody she performs a strange habit. When I get her out for one of her breaks she always runs off and jumps on the log. She scratches and pecks at it for a moment then goes … Continue reading →

Butterscotch has been broody for a week now. I get her out of the nest box three or four times a day for a break. She is a docile and easy to handle broody girl. She accepts me taking her … Continue reading →

Every time I go in to the run Emerald jumps on the inner child gate. It’s firmly become her habit. Now Toffee has started to do this as well. She doesn’t do it all the time but she is doing … Continue reading →

For the past three days Emerald has shared a nest box with Butterscotch despite the other nest box being empty. They look so cute together. Soon after I took this photo I checked back in on them and I knew … Continue reading →

We have just had a massive amount of work done to our sitting room. I decided to write three posts covering the three weeks and then put them all out together when the sitting room was finished. What I didn’t … Continue reading →

After the weekend we gave the sitting room it’s finishing touches. We had moved the furniture back in and now we put up the pictures and the mirror. I filled the bureau and gave the dado rail another coat of … Continue reading →

On Monday our neighbour spent a very long day plastering all the walls except the last wall which didn’t have plaster board and was just being skimmed. On Tuesday he skimmed the last wall and made a start on putting up the … Continue reading →

We decided to go straight from having our dining room floor laid to making the changes we wanted in our sitting room. It seemed to make sense to have our neighbour continue more or less straight away with the works for us … Continue reading →

This morning when I checked the nest boxes Emerald was sharing with broody Butterscotch. Toffee and Barley had already laid and the other big nest box was empty. Emerald laid her egg and Butterscotch rolled it underneath herself. I wonder … Continue reading →