Author Archives: Carol

The days are getting noticeably shorter. Last week the automatic door was closing at quarter past four and opening at quarter past seven. Last night the door closed at four o’clock and this morning it didn’t open until quarter to … Continue reading →

A few days ago my husband called me out to the garden to show me two Red kites in the top of the tree behind our garden. We see them overhead every day but have never seen them perched in … Continue reading →

After four months in our flock Speckles has at last got used to me. She is still the most nervous girl around her flock mates but she now runs to me with the rest of the flock. She now takes … Continue reading →

I have been digging up just enough potatoes and leeks all summer as we need them but decided it was time to dig the rest up before winter. There were a couple of potato plants still to dig and  half … Continue reading →

Butterscotch is an amazing girl! She is so regular in her laying pattern. She lays for three weeks, goes broody and takes a break for two weeks, then starts laying again. I really wasn’t sure she would start again this … Continue reading →

As I said in my last post I find it difficult to understand why there is so much squabbling at bedtime between the girls when during the day they are such a tight group. At lunch time I was doing … Continue reading →

At bedtime there are always squabbles over which girl is tolerated next to which flock mate. At times it seems really harsh with Peaches and Barley pecking at poor Speckles and at other times Emerald pecking at Peaches and Barley. … Continue reading →

Yesterday Butterscotch laid her egg just before half past ten and just before we had to go out. I collected her egg and we left. We returned shortly after half past eleven and I checked in on the girls. To … Continue reading →

I have been out to the girls at quarter to seven some mornings just as the automatic door on the chicken shed is opening and other mornings it’s already open depending on whether it is a dull or bright morning. … Continue reading →

On my Halloween post about the ghosts in our windows I said how comforting it was having an open fire. We always try to resist putting the heating on until November and this year November has been unusually mild. We … Continue reading →