Author Archives: Carol

Red is now the only girl laying. She is laying two eggs every three days. This means that the nest boxes can be kept closed until Red is ready to lay. Red is easy to tell because when she is … Continue reading →

Snow has now gone broody after laying seven eggs in ten days. They seem to be going broody faster and faster. Gold has come out of her broody spell but it will probably be a week before she comes back … Continue reading →

Yesterday Storm joined Gold in going broody after laying twelve eggs in seventeen days. On the same day Red came back into lay after a break of eleven days. It constantly seems to be one in and one out and … Continue reading →

Over the last few days I have realised that Mango is moulting. I remembered that last year Mango and Cloud moulted after they had been broody a few times. I looked back at my photos from June last year and … Continue reading →

It’s been a slow process but we are getting there. The evening after my last post I made a mistake which set us back a bit. I barricaded in front of the covered nest box to try to stop Red … Continue reading →

On the first evening that Mango and Cloud were broody I closed the nest boxes before bedtime. When I went up before the pop hole closed to check on them they were in the corner of the shed as I … Continue reading →

Two girls laying that is. Red has now gone broody too so we only have Gold and Storm laying. I am sure there has never been a previous year where we have had so few girls laying for such a … Continue reading →

In all our years of chicken keeping this has never happened before. We went up yesterday afternoon and there were no chickens in the run, empty run! They were all in the three nest boxes. Mango and Cloud have now … Continue reading →

Snow went broody two days ago after laying seven eggs in eleven days. Meanwhile Storm came back into lay the day before yesterday after a three week break. Gold came back into lay yesterday after an eleven day break. This … Continue reading →

Sugar was our longest lived and our last serama. She had virtually every chicken problem our flocks have ever had and yet she came through every thing, she was very resilient. Despite being one of our smallest girls Sugar had … Continue reading →