Author Archives: Carol

There seems to be an end of summer feel to the flock at the moment. None of the girls are laying, they are all either moulting or about to moult and they seem to spend a lot of time chilling … Continue reading →

As I have been finding it so easy to lift Butterscotch from the nest box and as she has no longer been showing any stress when she can’t get back in I increased the amount of times I lifted her … Continue reading →

I promise I won’t record every day but I am still learning about having a different type of broody from the perpetual broody Topaz. We had some over ripe strawberries today so I gave them to the girls. They didn’t … Continue reading →

Yesterday was the fourth day of Butterscotch being broody and we have now got into an easy routine. She is so easy to pick up which makes the whole process that much calmer and easier. If she isn’t out when … Continue reading →

Last night after the bedtime corn, Butterscotch went to her usual roosting spot on the top rung of the ladder and stayed there this time. This morning when I went out to the girls she was already in the little … Continue reading →

Today we made some new nest boxes for the chicken shed from some wooden wine boxes that we had. Butterscotch was in the nest box in her trance like broody state so I picked her up and tried her in … Continue reading →

That wasn’t quite the end of Butterscotch’s first broody day. We went up to check on the girls after our evening meal as we always do. I looked in the shed and thought “uh oh, where is Butterscotch?”. She was … Continue reading →

Butterscotch has just laid twenty eggs in twenty three days with her last twelve eggs in twelve days. Yesterday by late afternoon she was sat in the nest box when I realised that she had been in there rather a … Continue reading →

Peaches moult seems to have speeded up whereas Barley is just losing the odd feather. I took this photo of them together for comparison. Barley actually looks quite pristine in comparison. This is their first moult so I didn’t know … Continue reading →

At the moment I give the girls their bedtime treat of a hand full of sunflower seeds at five o’clock. From about half past four the girls are all lined up at the the bottom of the run waiting for … Continue reading →