Author Archives: Carol

Each time we have new girls I like to update “The history of the flock” page at the head of my blog. I am now on “The history of the flock part three”. This is mostly a record for me … Continue reading →

This morning while Smoke was in the nest box Flame decided that she wanted to lay her first egg of the year. Of course she really wanted to do this in the same nest box as Smoke. I knew that … Continue reading →

Marmite has had a feather sticking out at right angles for about a week. A few times I have tweaked it to see if it is loose. Then I picked her up and gave it a bit of a tug. … Continue reading →

Yesterday I went up to the chicken run with my camera and just happened to catch Shadow laying her egg. This was her fourth egg, in just under two weeks, since she started laying. This time she was in a … Continue reading →

Shadow has now laid three eggs which I saved for today’s breakfast. I used them for scrambled egg as I could put all three together for a one person portion. I wanted to crack Shadow’s eggs into the bowl first … Continue reading →

I say that it’s our first, three egg day of the year, but it’s also our first, more than one egg day, of the year as well. This morning Smoke laid her second egg this month. She laid her first … Continue reading →

Ebony is getting ready to lay again and has been practising over recent days. Smoke doesn’t need to practise. When Smoke is ready to start laying she just settles in a nest box and gets the job done. It’s a … Continue reading →

When Shadow started to squat for me a few days ago I knew that she was getting ready to start laying. Yesterday Shadow was very vocal and was going in and out of the nest boxes. Shadow went in the … Continue reading →

I have never posted so infrequently but there really hasn’t been much to post about recently and the weather has been awful. It seems to swing between being really wet or really cold. We have had weeks of rain and … Continue reading →

I have talked recently of how sometimes the flock seems to divide into two parts of bigger girls together and little girls together. There are other times when the flock are very definitely all together. The weather has recently made … Continue reading →