Author Archives: Carol

Cinnamon is the only girl that hasn’t started laying this year which is unusually late for her. Yesterday she followed Flame into the chicken shed and I thought she may be ready to lay but she just seemed to want … Continue reading →

For two days Jasmine sat in her corner of the chicken shed and then on the second evening she was perched with the amigos. I was surprised not to have to lift her and she has never perched there before … Continue reading →

Today Dandelion has looked unwell. This morning when I gave out some sunflower hearts she wasn’t interested and I started to worry. A little later she was sitting with her eyes closed. When she opened her eyes I could see … Continue reading →

Yesterday Smoke came out of her broody spell after a week. For the past week I have lifted her from the nest box every time I have gone into the run and I have closed the nest boxes before bedtime. … Continue reading →

Today Marmite and Dandelion were sharing a nest box again. They have done this a few times recently. It is so sweet to see girls in a nest box together.

Since the weekend we have been hardening off our broad beans and runner beans. We are putting them outside on the patio table, by the back door, during the day and bringing them back inside at night. The runner beans … Continue reading →

From time to time we have seen a little mouse in the garden. Last year we used to see it in the chicken run and this year we have seen it scurrying around the garden in and out of the … Continue reading →

Sienna is the last of the girls from our current breeder to lay her first, tiny, egg today. She is a late starter. She must be coming up to about a year old because we got the silky girls on … Continue reading →

The allotment is really taking shape now and isn’t far off being finished all by the planting. Tomorrow we have some top soil being delivered to fill the raised beds. They have been lined with black plastic to stop the … Continue reading →

Since Smoke started laying again after her last broody spell followed by a two week break, she has laid fourteen eggs, in exactly three weeks. I lift her out of the nest box every time I go into the run. … Continue reading →