Kate Pullen

I might have been wrong in my comment about moulting hens. It might be that the new feathers come through quill first which is what we are seeing and the whole feather has fallen out first. I have spent quite…

Crocheted pot 

I didn’t know that chickens did this when they moulted, not I suppose, having given it much thought I had assumed that their feathers completely fell out and new ones came through. So it was with a bit of a…

These are our Rhodes, the one on the left has moulted, the one on the right is going through moult now.

This is a close up.

An even closer up of the new feather coming through the feather shaft. 

We no longer have free range quails. Their unique flying style has had to be curtailed as another three escaped – even over the netting that we had put up. So there will soon be a large wild quail population…

I don’t suppose that Doris either had to cope with a number of small white dogs who have managed to spend the last hour playing in the coal pile.

Thinking about it, I don’t think that Doris Day really faced the challenges of living in a house which is constently ‘work in progress’ or indeed of living with Ian. In fact, the more I think of it, the more…

I got locked in the stable today with the runner ducks. I think the dogs had jumped on the bottom catch – I wonder if they had been trained… When I finally managed to get out I mentioned to Ian…