I have been getting three eggs a day from my three girls most days, but the last ten days, one has stopped laying regularly, and I can't find out which one. There is a fox around, so they are confined to their run.

Hope you are able to get your new girls, Lisa. They have a wonderful home to come to.

All the best with your chicken keeping, and enjoy the Lane, it is a fabulous site.

Poor little Blondie, glad to read that she is doing so well with your care.

I give my eggs away, to friends and my wonderful neighbour. Don't feel that I can sell them, partly because we have a free range egg farm at the other end of the village, and my eggs are dirty.

I am most envious of your find!

I re-use Christmas wrapping paper, one daughter in law gives me her used gift bags, we haven't sent cards (apart from close family members who live away), for the past two years, postage has killed that. And, dare I say it, because I have saved all the cards we have sent each other over the years, w...

I just wondered, with so many not making it.

There have been so very many little girls and one boy gone to the Rainbow Bridge this past fortnight. I am very new to keeping hens, but is it the cold, beastly weather that they just can't fight against?

Glad it isn't my fairly new washing machine that is playing up - will look for the liquid non-bio wash, Mad Chick. I looked at the three bird roast on Friday and wondered what it would be like. We popped in today on our way home, and the shop was busy. Lot of booze for sale - Advocat bottles piled f...

So sorry to read of your loss. Take care.

Welcome to the site, and enjoy your girls.

So sorry to read about little Liquorice. She must have had a lovely few months being pampered and loved.

So sorry that you have lost such a stunning boy.

By dry wipe, Steve, do you mean a piece of kitchen roll?