{"id":11414,"date":"2015-06-21T12:57:21","date_gmt":"2015-06-21T12:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=11414"},"modified":"2015-06-21T12:59:15","modified_gmt":"2015-06-21T12:59:15","slug":"day-three-of-the-regime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=11414","title":{"rendered":"Day three of the regime"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I felt a bit more positive about Sparkle but today I feel back down again. I think maybe my theory about her was complete rubbish. I am just clutching at straws because I don’t know what else to do for her.<\/p>\n

At bedtime last night I sprinkled some sunflower hearts in front of Sparkle but she ignored them.<\/p>\n

This morning I put her in the cat box once more with a bowl of water and a dish of mash which I again sprinkled with a few sunflower hearts. This time she didn’t even take the sunflower seeds from the mash. After the usual two hours she still hadn’t made any attempt to eat anything. I offered her a spinach leaf through the bars and she just turned away. She sits quietly and spends time sleeping with her head under wing.<\/p>\n

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Sparkle sleeping in the cat box<\/p><\/div>\n

By lunch time she had still not touched the food. I put a cube of melon in her dish to try to tempt her but she ignored it. At half past one I decided to give up and return her to the run.<\/p>\n

Sparkle moved at a snail’s pace through the run and started to preen a little.<\/p>\n

I offered her some dandelion leaves through the wire and suddenly she seemed interested but couldn’t compete against the speed of the other girls. I got my husband to offer her dandelion leaves while I distracted the girls further up the run with leaves and she ate a few.<\/p>\n

It seems that maybe she was having a strop at being put in the cat box. So tomorrow I will try plan B. I am going to separate part of the run like we do for integrating new girls. I will put her in there with water, mash, spinach and sunflower hearts. This way she can eat without competition and I will be able to see what she has eaten.<\/p>\n

I can only hope that this may work as I am running out of ideas. We will see what tomorrow brings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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