Author Archives: Carol

For about a week I was finding Flame’s feathers in the chicken shed each morning but she didn’t actually look very different from usual. Now I have stopped finding feathers and she suddenly looks quite tatty. It won’t be long … Continue reading →

Shadow and Sugar were about three months old when we got them at the end of the first week in September so they are about six months old now. They now have their in between voices. They are no longer … Continue reading →

Sugar and Shadow are pretty quick to catch on to anything new these days so I thought I would see how they get on with fish for the first time. I had already put some allotment chard in the run … Continue reading →

I keep thinking all the girls have done with moulting but then another girl starts. Like Ebony, Flame, had had a partial moult after going broody in the summer. It seems that this means they moult in two halves. For … Continue reading →

My friend Jackie sent me a colourful balloon jigsaw. It is a mirror image jigsaw which I have never come across before. I started to put the outside, straight, edges together. I realised that the rounded surface of the pieces … Continue reading →

We have been gradually digging up the chard at the allotment and giving it to the chooks. There is too much for us to consume and the girls love it. It also saves me having to buy them some daily … Continue reading →

Flame had been laying every other day but laid her last egg five days ago. I was surprised that she continued laying so late into the year. Smoke laid her last egg four days ago and has gone broody. Smoke … Continue reading →

Marmite and Ebony are both looking tatty. Marmite has a mass of pins on her head and Ebony has loose feathers and under feathers showing. These two girls both look odd in their own way. It will be good to … Continue reading →

After my post about the two jigsaw puzzles that I had to give up on my mum said that she had two really good ones and would send them to me. It has been so nice having enjoyable jigsaws to … Continue reading →

I recently said that Marmite was the last girl to moult. Ebony had had a partial moult late summer after her one broody spell. Suddenly instead of heaps of little black feathers in the run and chicken shed I am … Continue reading →