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Mixing the girls has gone slower than I expected. I tried putting Mango, Cloud and Ginger on the new girls side to take the worst chasers out of the equation. It didn’t work. Gold, Storm and Silver who had taken no notice of the new girls before now constantly chased them.

The next day I put Gold and Snow in with the new girls. They took no notice of the new girls and the four got along fine but it’s not really helping with getting them mixing.

Yesterday I mixed them and it seemed to be going fine for a while. I thought we were making progress but then suddenly the new girls were constantly being chased again. They once again ended up at the top of the ladder.

At this point, photo above, I thought it was going so well but then suddenly the chasing started again. The new girls were getting stressed so I separated them again.

In other news, on the egg front, there has been a slow down. Cloud remained broody for nearly two weeks. The odd thing is that the day Cloud went broody, Mango stopped laying. She hasn’t laid for two weeks but hasn’t gone broody either.

Red hasn’t yet started laying after her broody spell but I think she will come back into lay soon. Storm is only laying two or three eggs a week. Gold, Snow, Silver and Ginger are laying. They are now alternating the days they are laying so are we are getting two eggs a day. Snow and Gold will probably go broody again soon though.

It will be good when the new girls start laying to get a few more eggs. First though I need to get them mixed. They always get there in the end so I guess I will have to just keep giving them time together.

Edit

Red has just laid an egg after a break of eleven days. Well done Red!