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<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>Snowflake’s time with us was all too short. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Spangle<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
We got five seramas in August 2018 at two and a half months old. I called them the five amigos. They were Smoke, Salmon, Vanilla, Marmite and Spangle. Sadly only Salmon is still with us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Spangle is the girl that has most changed in her appearance out of all the girls we have ever had. When we first got her we thought she looked like a turnstone. She had lots of brown feathers. As she moulted she gradually lost her brown feathers. First the feathers on her back disappeared and then gradually her tail feathers. She ended up with just a few brown diamonds on her back. I think she got more and more pretty as she changed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Spangle is eating from the bowl on the left. She now has no brown tail feathers and in fact very few brown feathers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With all the girls laying there were times when all the nest boxes were occupied. I knew Spangle wanted to lay so I made a temporary nest box from a crisp box which Spangle immediately took to. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Spangle is now white with a few small brown feathers. I thought she was a really beautiful girl. She also had a lovely friendly nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We were lucky to have a good five years with spangle. She was a beautiful girl with a lovely nature. She is very much missed and will never be forgotten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I wasn’t sure whether to do a tribute to the two girls separately but decided that as they went together I would do this for both of them in one post. In my title I have put Spangle first as … Continue reading <\/a>
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