Category Archives: Chickens

This afternoon I set up a third feeding station in the bottom end of the new girls run. Then I mixed the girls together. Today they didn’t seem to be taking much notice of each other. I ended up leaving … Continue reading →

Mixing the girls has gone slower than I expected. I tried putting Mango, Cloud and Ginger on the new girls side to take the worst chasers out of the equation. It didn’t work. Gold, Storm and Silver who had taken … Continue reading →

Both yesterday and today I gave the new girls an hour with the main flock. It went about the same both days. Snow, Gold, Silver, Storm and Red took no notice of the new girls. As I expected it was … Continue reading →

Today I switched the girls on the opposite sides of the run. Maple and Popcorn immediately went down to the bottom of the run. At the end of their first week the new girls found the ladder and the branch … Continue reading →

Today Red went broody and both Snow and Gold came back into lay. Red went broody after laying ten eggs in nineteen days. Snow had taken a break of fourteen days and Gold had taken a break of eight days. … Continue reading →

When the laying girls have laid I have been closing the nest boxes but Cloud is quite determined at the moment. I knew Red needed to lay so had to leave the nest boxes open. I took one photo from … Continue reading →

Cloud has now gone broody. She has only laid seven eggs in eleven days. I lifted Cloud out of the nest box and she didn’t move. Her feathers are raised and her eyes look manic. I am surprised she has … Continue reading →

Gold went broody two days ago. She isn’t determined at all though and after two days she is over it. Snow on the other hand has been broody for a week. She is the most determined broody of our current … Continue reading →

When I opened the new girls’ little coup Popcorn was the first to venture out. This gave me the chance to get a good close up photo. I opened the hatch and closed the side gate so that they had … Continue reading →

The day before the new girls arrived Silver was the only girl to lay. We are on an every other day cycle with egg laying at the moment. The day the new girls arrived we had another, six egg, day. … Continue reading →