Category Archives: Chickens

I worm the flock twice a year in March and September. I find the easiest way is to add a spoon of flubenvet to four little dishes of mash (pellets with water) every day for seven consecutive days. The girls … Continue reading →

I knew Gold was getting ready to lay as she had been squatting when ever I came up behind her and also was very vocal. She has a very bright red face and comb too. This morning she started going … Continue reading →

For the last few days Storm has been very vocal and has been looking in the nest boxes and the corners of the shed. This morning she was in and out of the nest boxes. I didn’t manage to get … Continue reading →

It seems ridiculously early in the year but Red has gone broody after laying sixteen eggs. Yesterday Red was in the nest box from the morning onwards. She finally laid an egg in the afternoon but returned to the nest … Continue reading →

Snow laid two eggs on 3rd and 5th of January. After a month’s break Snow laid again today. I didn’t actually catch her in the nest box but had seen her on the ramp yesterday and this morning. What really … Continue reading →

Silver laid yesterday after a five day break. She does seem to be erratic at the moment. That means we now have Red, Ginger and Silver laying. I love how the girls’ eggs are so different making it easy to … Continue reading →

I knew Ginger was getting ready to lay again and yesterday Ginger laid her first egg of this year with Red laying today. Silver last laid six days ago. Ginger’s egg is quite different from Silver’s. We had eaten the … Continue reading →

There has been a very strange pattern with the egg laying girls. Snow laid twice on 3rd and 5th January and hasn’t laid since. On those same days Red and Silver also laid giving us two, three egg, days. But … Continue reading →

I was amazed by the early start of eggs this year. Silver, Snow and Red all laid on the 5th January. They then missed a day and all three laid again on the 7th January. That was five days ago … Continue reading →

Yesterday Red was in the grit for the first time this year. She always used to go the grit the day before laying so I wondered if she was getting ready to start laying again. Then Snow started looking in … Continue reading →