Author Archives: Carol

For quite some time my son, Steve, has been saying that we should put the girls portraits on the side bar of my blog. I like the idea but have held off as the girls look so tatty from the … Continue reading →

Yesterday evening I spent some more time working on the run. I had forked the whole run over a few days earlier but there were lots of hard clods of earth. The big girls, especially Bluebell, have big strong feet … Continue reading →

Yesterday afternoon the little girls were really going for it in a dust bath. I think perhaps it was too hot for the big girls. Once again I have good and bad news on the feather pulling. The bad news … Continue reading →

It’s summer in the chicken run and the hypericum is in full flower. It fills the corner of the run and is so tall that it now reaches the top of the run. I have had to prune it back … Continue reading →

Hot summer weather has arrived at last. Sunday was the hottest day of the year so far (high seventies) and after a washed out summer last year it was the hottest day that the chickens have yet experienced. They didn’t … Continue reading →

Amber really hasn’t got the hang of egg laying yet. Today I had been in with the girls and left them for a very short while. When I returned Amber had again laid her egg in the run. It was … Continue reading →

It was a week ago that I noticed banty feathers in the run. At the time I couldn’t see where they were disappearing from. Over this past week I have noticed Ambers neck becoming bare but couldn’t catch the culprit … Continue reading →

Instead of spring greens, for the girls, I picked up sweetheart cabbage by mistake. The girls like the loose leaves of spring greens as when I throw them on the floor of the run they fling them about, pecking bits … Continue reading →

Today I did a bit of gardening and gave the girls some weeds and the dead heads from the roses. They love the rose petals and soon hoover them up. It was the first sunny day for a long time … Continue reading →

I collected my chickens on the last weekend in June (on a Friday) a year ago today. This has been quite a journey! I started out with three dominiques, Poppy, Pepper and Dotty. Within the first month Pepper developed a … Continue reading →