Author Archives: Carol

Dotty, Amber and Honey have all had piles of feathers falling from them and have now regrown their feathers and are looking really good. Bluebell seems to be moulting one feather at a time, she never looks much different apart … Continue reading →

Pepper and Dotty are dominiques which are a rare pure breed with rose combs. They are one of the oldest American breeds and very cold hardy due their comb which is not prone to frostbite and their thick layer of … Continue reading →

I know I recently did a post about the girls enjoying a bag of leaves but it is so joyful that I can’t resist briefly revisiting this. I recently met up with my friend and fellow chicken keeper Jackie and … Continue reading →

Since all the girls have been moulting they have regrown their feathers and are looking better than they have looked all summer. Due to the feather plucking habit Pepper and Dotty both had bare bottoms. Bluebell had a bare neck … Continue reading →

My husband swept up the leaves from the garden and put them in a bin sack for the girls. A few days ago we tipped them in a heap in the run. The girls soon gathered round the leaves and … Continue reading →

After moving the furniture around in the run yesterday, I wondered what the girls would make of the little coop having changed position. It’s against the back wall now with the ramp facing in a different direction towards the side … Continue reading →

I decided to to move the position of the storage cabinet which holds all the things needed for my chickens. It was on the back boundary of the covered area of the chicken enclosure which is a big shed and … Continue reading →

I have read that people give an occasional banana to their girls especially while moulting. I have tried mine with banana in the past and they wouldn’t eat it. They tested it with a few pecks and at the end … Continue reading →

The little girls go into the coop on their own every day now. The big girls have done so on a few of the colder days but most days they go to the coop roof and wait for me to … Continue reading →

This morning when I went into the chickens poor Dotty had no tail at all. When I opened the coop to do my morning clean up there was her last tail feather under the perch that she sleeps on. After … Continue reading →