{"id":12396,"date":"2015-09-09T17:32:42","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T17:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=12396"},"modified":"2015-09-09T17:32:42","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T17:32:42","slug":"no-more-eggs-until-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=12396","title":{"rendered":"No more eggs until spring"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mid morning I went in the girl’s run and saw about six feathers from Butterscotch. Uh oh! It looked as if she was going into the moult. By lunch time there was a pile of her feathers in the run. She is definitely moulting. Later after I had picked up all the feathers I saw her preening under the table surrounded by a circle of feathers.<\/p>\n

It’s official, Butterscotch is moulting. This means that there will be no more eggs until spring. A little later Honey had one of her own feathers stuck to her foot. She must have walked in something, lost a feather and was walking around with it stuck to her foot. I crept up behind her and removed it.<\/p>\n

This means she is the last of the flock to start her moult. I have never had eight girls moulting before because last year Peaches and Barley didn’t moult as it was their first year. This means it is the first year that I will have no eggs over the winter. Oh well, it had to happen eventually!<\/p>\n

On a more positive note Honey seems to be looking happier so perhaps it was the impending moult that was making her feel a bit off her game.<\/p>\n

I decided to put the rest of the turf in the run as it was beginning to turn a bit yellow. I rolled it out like a rug in the furthest part of the run and the girls have been enjoying it all day. At lunch time it had many of Butterscotch’s feathers on it.<\/p>\n

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The rest of the turf<\/p><\/div>\n

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Speckles and Butterscotch are enjoying the grass<\/p><\/div>\n

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A fluffy bottom<\/p><\/div>\n

Butterscotch has such a fluffy bottom. She has taken over from Sparkle with the fluffiest bottom in the flock. Maybe not for much longer, depending on how her moult goes, but the girls will all look beautiful again once they have their lovely new feathers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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