Author Archives: Carol

We seem to get one very welcome day each weekend when there is a break in the rain and we have blue sky and sunshine. Today it made the garden feel springlike. I am really pleased to see that Amber’s … Continue reading →

I was shocked when I went into the girls this afternoon and immediately noticed that Amber looked as if she had a bare patch on her head. My first thought was that she had had a bunch of feathers plucked … Continue reading →

Okay, this may just look like another photo of some eggs, but this is special. The egg on the left is Pepper’s, the next is Bluebell’s, the next is Honey’s and the egg on the right, wait for it, is … Continue reading →

This morning Pepper, Bluebell and Honey all seemed to want to lay an egg. Pepper always takes her time and was in and out of the little coop. Bluebell then went into the little coop and Pepper was strutting around … Continue reading →

Pepper and Dotty are a really close couple of chickens. Yesterday afternoon when I went into the run they were sitting together on one of the wooden blocks. They were snuggled up together and dozing. It was heart warming to … Continue reading →

This morning when I went in to clean the coop there was a broken soft shelled banty egg in the doorway again. It was once again Bluebell pecking at it that alerted me to it. I quickly cleaned it away. … Continue reading →

The little girls both laid an egg on the same day two weeks ago. I am sure they will both lay another egg soon as they keep going into the nest box together. They seem to like to keep each … Continue reading →

All my girl’s apart from Dotty are back to laying again giving me an assortment of lovely eggs. Their eggs remind me of the sugar almond eggs you can buy because of the lovely pastel colours. Apart from a few … Continue reading →

Last year Valentines Day was rather sad because it was the day we had to have Treacle put to sleep. She had been very ill for three weeks and I couldn’t let her suffer any more. My husband drove me … Continue reading →

We have now had four months of continual rain. I have never known rain like this in my lifetime and they are saying in the newspapers that the south of England is having the wettest year since records began. They … Continue reading →