One of our Scots Grey pullets died last night. I counted all the chickens out when I opened the pophole to the big hen house this morning. The flock was one short. After walking around to the main door, I opened it and looked in.
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Joining the flock
28 September, 2011
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I had hoped to get a decent photograph of our young Scots Grey pullets and cockerels joining the main flock today. However, they took one look at the camera and bolted into the darkest corner of the big poultry run where they clustered into a shivering huddle. The photo, above, was the best image I [...]
Read more Farewell to Orville
8 August, 2011
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It’s a bleak, wet and windy day on the croft, which felt appropriate when I decided Orville, our oldest Scots Grey cockerel, had to be put down. Orville had grown more stiff and less mobile over the past two months so it was increasingly likely that he’d be culled sooner rather than later. In the [...]
Read more Chicks are doing well
13 June, 2011
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One of our six-day-old Scots Grey chicks in the brooder. The chicks’ flight feathers are already starting to grow out.
Read more A good Scots Grey hatching
7 June, 2011
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We’ve had 22 Scots Grey eggs in the incubator for the past three weeks, with an expected hatching date of June 5 or 6. Usually, we expect poor fertility with high numbers of congenital deformities. Their low numbers mean Scots Greys have a very restricted genetic pool, which is not helped when breeding stock often [...]
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