Author Archives: Carol

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 →

Poor Dotty is having a really hard moult. At first I felt the moult wasn’t having much effect on the girls but that was before Dotty suddenly lost loads of feathers at once including her tail. She looks much worse … Continue reading →

I feel so sorry for Dotty as she is having the worst moult of all my girls. Dotty is looking more ragged and tatty by the minute and when I pick her up to put her in the coop at … Continue reading →

This morning I picked up lots of feathers from the coop once more but when I went back into the run mid morning I picked up five long tail feathers. It’s Dotty’s turn to lose her tail and she only … Continue reading →

This morning there were loads of feathers in the coop again. Dotty’s chest is a mass of loose feathers and she looks like a gust of wind could blow them away. Dotty seems to be moulting more completely than the … Continue reading →

Yesterday we had to go out to do a delivery at four o’clock and got back just after five o’clock. Before we left I propped the coop door open with the doorstop to give the little girls more time to … Continue reading →

There has been a storm warning for days now, telling us that last night and this morning most of the country would be hit by heavy rain and winds of up to ninety miles an hour. Yesterday (Sunday) turned into … Continue reading →