Author Archives: Carol

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 →

Yesterday I was in the garden when I heard one of the bantys making an agitated noise. I went to investigate and Amber walked out from under the bush into the open. At first I thought one of the big … Continue reading →

Last year I had the idea of cutting a turf into twelve squares and planting them in seed trays. I would put one tray in the chicken run each day for the girls to have daily grass and by the … Continue reading →

The bedtime routine seems to be ever changing. The way in which it is changing is that the little girls are getting closer and closer to the big girls. They have gone from the coop roof to the little chair … Continue reading →

last night before bedtime I scooped up a couple of buckets of damp wood chip that the girls had scratched out of their run. I dumped it back in the run and watched them scratch through it. They found a … Continue reading →

Yesterday Bluebell laid her egg in the little coop. This morning she laid in the little coop again. I wondered if Bluebell preferred the little coop because it has more headroom than the nest box. Bluebell is our biggest girl … Continue reading →

For a while now the big girls have been roosting on the high perch above the storage cabinet at dusk, until I go and lift them down and put them in the coop. For the last week the little girls … Continue reading →