Author Archives: Carol

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 →

Barley has laid her first three eggs this week. We were hoping for another so that we could have two each for Sunday breakfast but never mind, it’s not the first time we have had one and a half eggs … Continue reading →

On Sunday I posted about what I thought was Barley’s first egg. We now think it was her second egg. Today I just happened to be bent over while changing from my coop boots back into my outside boots when … Continue reading →

Barley has been getting ready for egg laying for weeks now. Every morning she is very vocal and goes into the right hand little coop and scratches around. Every time I checked she had made a well in the shavings … Continue reading →

It’s only two weeks since I visited Jackie’s girls when they were in a sorry state of moulting. Jackie e-mailed me to let me know how quickly they were getting their feathers back and invited me to visit and see … Continue reading →

It’s not often I can get a photo of all eight girls perching together. They like perching where the ladder is because with the rungs of the ladder as well as the branch they can all get a spot together. … Continue reading →