Category Archives: Chickens

For a while Emerald has held on to her last remaining tail feather but it has now dropped out. There was a bit of spinach caught in the wire and just as I took her photo Emerald reached for it … Continue reading →

Emerald and Speckles are both heavily moulting. Poor Emerald is a mass of pins and missing feathers. Speckles has an almost all white head. Look at Cinnamon’s feet in comparison to Speckles feet. We call them her “digger feet”. We … Continue reading →

Emerald, Speckles and Apricot line up in a patch of sun. Emerald stretches, lifts out her wing to the sun and dozes. Pure bliss.

Since Emerald and Speckles have become the only two bigger girls, amongst a flock of little girls, the dynamics of the flock have changed totally. It has become a happier, quieter, more settled and harmonious flock. But it’s not just … Continue reading →

Since we have had the little girls, by which I mean the seramas, Rusty and Freckles have always perched on their own perch on the left hand side of the shed and Cinnamon, Dandelion and Apricot have always perched on … Continue reading →

As we suspected the fourth and final arch was a really difficult one to do. There is so much weight in the rose and it is so thorny. It took us until nearly dinner time, yesterday evening, to finish it … Continue reading →

We are now on a roll with this project. Luckily we are having a quiet week, work wise, so are getting on with this in the afternoons. This arch went up much easier than the one before. We have found … Continue reading →

When you read the title it sounds so easy. I can assure you it wasn’t! We thought that after the first arch was done it would get easier but the second one proved to be much more difficult than the first … Continue reading →

I think ourselves lucky that at the moment we are only having one girl go broody at a time but it does seem to be working it’s way through the little girls. The little girls lay, on average, every other … Continue reading →

Our next door neighbours, and good friends, have a beautiful hydrangea in their front garden. They inherited it from previous people living there as it has been there from before we moved here and our neighbours moved in after us. … Continue reading →