Category Archives: Chickens

For the past three days Emerald has shared a nest box with Butterscotch despite the other nest box being empty. They look so cute together. Soon after I took this photo I checked back in on them and I knew … Continue reading →

We have just had a massive amount of work done to our sitting room. I decided to write three posts covering the three weeks and then put them all out together when the sitting room was finished. What I didn’t … Continue reading →

After the weekend we gave the sitting room it’s finishing touches. We had moved the furniture back in and now we put up the pictures and the mirror. I filled the bureau and gave the dado rail another coat of … Continue reading →

On Monday our neighbour spent a very long day plastering all the walls except the last wall which didn’t have plaster board and was just being skimmed. On Tuesday he skimmed the last wall and made a start on putting up the … Continue reading →

We decided to go straight from having our dining room floor laid to making the changes we wanted in our sitting room. It seemed to make sense to have our neighbour continue more or less straight away with the works for us … Continue reading →

This morning when I checked the nest boxes Emerald was sharing with broody Butterscotch. Toffee and Barley had already laid and the other big nest box was empty. Emerald laid her egg and Butterscotch rolled it underneath herself. I wonder … Continue reading →

I found a huge dandelion in the garden today that had somehow hidden itself until fully grown. I knew the girls would love this. Emerald now jumps on the inner, child gate, every time I go in the run. I … Continue reading →

Last night I took a photo of the bedtime line up. Since Honey and Topaz have gone Speckles and Butterscotch have paired up. Speckles often used to dust bath with Honey and seemed to have a bit of an alliance … Continue reading →

Yesterday I thought I would take a close up of each of the girls. She has an amazing comb. She has a white strip on her neck but luckily it’s not too bad. She is getting her feathers back to … Continue reading →

At last Butterscotch’s pins are opening on her breast. This was Butterscotch ten days ago. This is Butterscotch today. I am not sure if she will get her crest back this year after some of the pins from her head … Continue reading →