Author Archives: Carol

Yesterday Jackie and I visited each others girls for the last time this year as Jackie and her husband go away to warmer climes for Christmas. Jackie has a friend who looks after her chickens while she is away. I … Continue reading →

This summer at the beginning of July I discovered the dreaded red mite in the coop. After two and a half years without encountering them I had grown a bit complacent and hadn’t been checking for them so thoroughly. I … Continue reading →

Peaches and Barley are six months old now and are grown up egg laying girls. I therefore felt it was time to add a current photo of them to the pages: “Meet the flock“, “The history of my flock” and … Continue reading →

I have posted recently about how close and in synch Peaches and Barley are. I have been trying to get a good photo of them together to add to my “meet the flock” page as the photograph on the page … Continue reading →

Sometimes after the moult the girl’s feather patterns change. Last year after the moult Amber’s feathers came back in with a lot more black speckles on her back. This year Honey’s feathers have come back in with black speckles on … Continue reading →

At the beginning of this winter we had rats coming into the run again. It took a while to track down where they were coming in. The good news is that they haven’t managed to dig in this year. Last … Continue reading →

A few days ago I did a post about how close Peaches and Barley are. Today while all the girls had a dust bath this was demonstrated again. All eight girls were having a communal dust bathing session but they … Continue reading →

Yesterday morning Barley went into her favoured nest box (right hand little coop) and laid her fourth egg. Peaches meanwhile spent all day scratching around in all three nest boxes and chucking pine shavings out every where. I wondered if … Continue reading →

While photographing the girls over the last few days to get up to date photos of their new feathers I realised just how inseparable Peaches and Barley are. Every set of photos had these two girls side by side or … Continue reading →

This winter the moult seems to have taken forever but I think it’s probably because I have eight girls this winter as opposed to five last year. Over the last three or four days I have been trying to collate … Continue reading →