One of the new chickens is laying massive eggs.
This picture shows the size difference between one of the monster eggs and a normal one.
Brings tears to the eyes just to look at it.
When we opened this egg it had two yolks in it.
We weren’t expecting any eggs from the new hens quite so soon. When [...]
Alex Salmond, the First Minister, came to the island today to visit various places including the GP Practice where Ruth is Practice Manager. Ruth organised the visit and it went very well.
The kids from the local school, including John Luke, went along to cheer Alex when he arrived.
He spent quite a long time chatting to [...]
This morning Ruth collected four more chickens from a local farm.
The new arrivals are in the process of molting and are therefore not laying eggs. This means we will be feeding them for a couple of weeks before they start laying.
This is no problem for us, as it means we got the birds for just [...]
When little kids draw pictures it can be hard to tell what it is they have drawn.
Abby is just the same. Where she sees arms, legs, dinosaurs, flowers etc. all I can see is a lot of squiggly lines.
Then the other day she produced this really good picture of a person / face. The arms [...]
One of our chickens was killed by this mink yesterday. It happened during the day sometime between 10:30 and midday.
I know this because the bird that was killed had been sitting on eggs, and I was keeping an eye on her, giving her food etc.
At first I thought she was with the other two birds, [...]
Jonathan