Author Archives: Carol

I have mentioned a few times lately of constant rain, mud and surrounding floods. Usually we like to walk at weekends and holiday times but this Christmas we didn’t walk at all as the rain was so constant. Yesterday was … Continue reading →

My girls have their own funny ways of interacting with me. As soon as I walk through the gate Dotty likes to jump onto my shoulder. As I walk near the coop she likes to jump from my shoulder to … Continue reading →

During the moult and the subsequent withdrawal of egg laying, the girl’s combs were very pale. The bantys were the first to start their moult and stopped laying four months ago. Dotty was next and stopped laying for two months. … Continue reading →

My friend Jackie sadly lost two her of her girls recently. She lost Annie just before Christmas and Rosie yesterday leaving her with only two girls. Jackie had been thinking of getting some more girls in the spring but now … Continue reading →

With all the continuing rain we are having, I decided to buy another bag of wood chip to make a thicker layer in the part of the run that the girls like to hang out most. The existing wood chips … Continue reading →

Happy New Year to everyone and their critters. My first battle of the new year and in fact ongoing battle from last year is combating mud in the run. I have never known the run so muddy in my two … Continue reading →

With the relentless rain I have been struggling with mud in the run despite it being fully under cover. I decided to buy a bag of wood chip and put it over the ground on the part of the run … Continue reading →

We woke to a white Christmas of sorts. It was a frosty morning and when I opened the blind on our bedroom velux window I found this. It had rained in the night and the frost had made a very … Continue reading →

As a Christmas Eve treat I gave the girls some scrambled egg today. This is their favourite treat and it was gone in no time at all. Pepper is still coming through her moult so I thought the protein would … Continue reading →

The automatic coop door now closes at four o’clock in the afternoon and opens at eight o’clock in the morning. I go out to the girls at half past seven and shine my torch on the door to open it … Continue reading →