Laying summary – May

Oh dear – both eggs and posts have been few and far between in May. Sorry!
For pretty much the whole month it has only been Bessie keeping us supplied, one every couple of days or so. The daily egg for breakfast has been off the menu, and the purchase of eggs has been seriously contemplated. Bear [...]

back to the Winter Garden

Well we finally managed to get the Winter Garden run reassembled, re-roofed and the girls reinstalled. And we didn’t have much time to spare – we just got it done by nightfall, and this was the view the following morning:

On the full size image, you can just see Poppy and Bessie through the doorway. And [...]

Laying summary – April

Well our hopes for April were somewhat optimistic! No hens came back into lay, and Lily laid intermittently before finally stopping (and getting into her moult) on the 24th. Only our ever-reliable Bessie was in lay for the whole month – every second day. In the end we only had 27 eggs for all of [...]