Author Archives: Carol

My mum asked what the plant is, in my last post, with the pretty multi coloured berries. I couldn’t remember as we bought it years ago and we couldn’t even remember where we got it from so I googled it. … Continue reading →

It seems to be a really good year for berries of all sorts. When I look out of our bedroom window the roses are now a mass of rose hips. The climbing plants on the fence opposite our kitchen window … Continue reading →

I give the girls greens every morning. I usually give them some spinach and some big spring green leaves. I put spinach on the patio area which is devoured quickly and big leaves in the run to keep the girls … Continue reading →

We have been catering together for twenty years but have been doing afternoon teas on vintage crockery for the last five years. We also hire it out if people want to use it with their own afternoon tea. It came … Continue reading →

Ebony was very quickly through being broody. My experiences with my seramas being broody is quite different to what it is with Ebony and Flame. I am not including Speckles in this because she has never ever gone broody. The … Continue reading →

Chicks have a partial moult where they lose their baby feathers and get their adult feathers in. We have only had the five amigos for three weeks but when we first got them they all had tails. Since then Vanilla … Continue reading →

Three days ago Ebony spent most of the day in the nest box coming out just a couple of times for food and water and a quick dust bath. I wondered if she was going broody but at the end … Continue reading →

We have had the five amigos for three and a half weeks now, four weeks on Wednesday. It seems like longer because they have integrated so quickly and easily. They are also growing quickly. I have been a bit nervous … Continue reading →

Speckles has been moulting forever! She has also had a really poor year as far as egg laying goes. Last year she laid 27 eggs which isn’t a great total. This year she has only laid 12 eggs. In March … Continue reading →

Ebony and Flame are so in sync with their egg laying that they both want their favourite high nest box at the same time. Ebony takes longer to lay her egg than Flame does so sometimes Flame joins Ebony in … Continue reading →