Category Archives: Chickens

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Autumn is unfortunate having such a heavy moult so late in the year. But she does have lots of pins and her bottom now has short fluffy feathers. Autumn still looks really shabby but at least she is on the … Continue reading →

Autumn is having the worse moult we can remember. She looks very tatty, is still dropping feathers and is a mass of pins. It’s been a few days since I stopped spraying Autumn’s legs and feet. So far she has … Continue reading →

Autumn is having the most tatty moult we have seen for many years. She is having the latest moult we have seen for many years too. I thought Autumn was over the worst of her moult as the feather dropping … Continue reading →

Portraits of the girls in the order I that took them. Red is very stop and start with her egg laying. An odd pattern seems to have emerged. She laid three eggs in a week then took a seven day … Continue reading →

Autumn is now moulting big time. There are clouds of feathers wherever she has been. Trust her to wait until the start of the colder weather to moult. I decided to give the girls some fish to boost their protein … Continue reading →

The good news is that Red is back in lay again. She laid today on the third day after her last egg. We will be having her eggs for our weekend breakfast. The bad news is that Autumn is back … Continue reading →

Red laid three eggs, each one on the third day then stopped. It’s been seven days since she laid her last egg but she was in the grit and oyster shell both yesterday and today so I felt she was … Continue reading →

Snow has been having a full moult. This surprises me for a first year girl as they don’t usually moult before their first winter. She started losing all the small feathers and then some wing feathers and then her tail … Continue reading →

Over the last few weeks Red’s comb had reached full size and turned red. For the last week Red has squatted every time I pick her up to put her in the chicken shed at the end of the day. … Continue reading →