Author Archives: Carol

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 →

There are plenty of places in the run to dust bath but Butterscotch has suddenly decided to squeeze between my boot scraper and the wooden block. This is the fourth time we have found her trying to dust bath here. … Continue reading →

So far the large (little coop) nest boxes have been favourite and until today no one has gone in the little nest box, apart from Butterscotch once, when I had closed the rest off. Today though we had three girls … Continue reading →

This afternoon the girls were enjoying a communal dust bath in the sun. I just love to see them having such a lovely time.

Speckles is now obsessed with her new trick of jumping on my back every time I go through the gate to the run. This morning I closed the outer gate but the inner child gate was still open and in … Continue reading →

We now have five out of eight girls laying and the day before yesterday was our first “four egg day” with Speckles, Peaches, Barley and Butterscotch all laying and Honey laid the day before. This is nearly a full house … Continue reading →

Since we have lived in this house (nine years) we have had a bird feeding station in the garden with two feeders filled with black sunflower seeds and one with a suet block. As a bird bath near by we … Continue reading →