Category Archives: Chickens

My new girls arrived at half past one today. They are a gold sebright who I have called Maple and a gold pencilled wyandotte who I have called Popcorn. Maple looked like she would like to get in the other … Continue reading →

After I posted about our first, six egg day, of the year which was the day Mango laid her first egg of the year we had one egg the following day which was followed by our second, six egg, day. … Continue reading →

I knew that Mango was going to lay today. She was much more vocal than usual. She kept going in and out of the nest boxes and was scratching around and throwing out loads of pine shavings. A bit later … Continue reading →

Gold came back in to lay two days ago. She had taken a break of ten days. Cloud is now squatting as well as Mango. Cloud started squatting a couple of days after Mango started squatting. These two are always … Continue reading →

Red went broody two days ago just as Gold came out of her broody spell. Red had laid nine eggs in nineteen days. Ginger, Silver and Snow are all laying every other day. Storm is laying on average once a … Continue reading →

Snow laid two eggs on 3rd and 5th January then stopped. About a month ago I thought Snow had laid again as there was an elongated shaped egg in the nest box. It turned out that it wasn’t her egg … Continue reading →

Storm has proved really elusive to catch in the nest box. She is in and out so quickly. Today was our third, four egg, day. We have been getting four eggs every other day. The first two were Gold, Red, … Continue reading →

We now have five out of eight girls laying. I think Snow will be next to start laying as she has been having a quick in and out of the nest boxes over the last few days. We started the … Continue reading →

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 →