Author Archives: Carol

This year I have had to wait until the very last day to do my end of year egg totals as Smoke and Ebony have been laying through the end of December. Smoke and Ebony are so in sync at … Continue reading →

Today is two days after the Boxing Day eggs. There were no eggs yesterday. This morning Smoke settled in the favourite nest box. A while later I heard her shouting and knew that she had laid her egg. Smoke was … Continue reading →

Smoke has now laid four eggs this December so far. On boxing Day Smoke settled in her favourite nest box next to the chicken shed. Ebony started shouting and while having had this behaviour through the summer, when several girls … Continue reading →

I planned to give the girls yogurt as their Christmas treat but they got a bit of an early treat this morning. I was giving them their morning sunflower hearts when I knocked the plastic carton that I decant the … Continue reading →

This morning Smoke was very vocal and was looking in the nest boxes. She soon settled in her favourite nest box next to the chicken shed. When I next checked on her she was back out and had laid an … Continue reading →

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 →