my chickens in october 2013

Clover has a bigger cone and her feathers are clearer and brighter than Ashley's. Their eggs are getting bigger too.



Teasle likes scratching for insects in the front garden and hunting for apples and plums that have dropped on the floor. She likes to follow me around a lot of the time.



Snowdrop is pretty muddy at the moment because she is white. She prefers to stay in the hen house with Clover rather than go out though she does like to go in the front garden some times. I think that Snowdrop and Clover are frightened of the cars on the drive. She likes to sleep high up in the grape vine in the greenhouse rather than the perch.





Bramble goes around with Ashley once they get let out and they disappear off in the field together.



Ashley has grown a tail because she molted last month. Since I last blogged, Cherry died. Ashley spent a lot of her time looking in the greenhouse window for Cherry but she has now started to go round with Bramble who is exactly the same colour as Cherry but just smaller.

Catch up on the new chickens

Teasle has now grown a cone and she is laying eggs now and she is the second biggest of the new hens. She also like apples but Clover doesn't. Clover is very naughty and she keeps going in the vegetarian garden. She think airplanes are birds because she hides from them. I can pick Snowdrop up a lot easier than before. At night she sleeps on a vine branch in the greenhouse and Teasle sleeps in the little henhouse at the foot of the grape vine. The rest of the hens - Brambles, Ashley and Clover sleep in the main henhouse.
Cherry is sleeping in isolation in the new greenhouse as she is quite poorly and I don't think she has long to live.