Archive for June, 2009

Poppy returns to the lay!

June 23, 2009

Yes indeedy, after 124 days off moulting, Thumper Poppy has returned to the lay. With quite a lot more fuss than usual – she typically pops the first egg of a sequence out without giving us much notice, but this time she spent about two hours going in and out, wingeing and bitching.
I thought she [...]

we apologise for the interruption to service

June 20, 2009

Sorry about the infrequent posts – we’ve both been a bit sick (no, not swine flu), and the girls have been doing nothing much other than eating and getting fat. Everyone has survived their moults, and are starting to look more like chickens and less like extras from a horror movie. When the murky weather [...]