{"id":13762,"date":"2016-01-27T17:47:04","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T17:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=13762"},"modified":"2016-01-27T17:52:30","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T17:52:30","slug":"more-about-the-bedtime-routine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=13762","title":{"rendered":"More about the bedtime routine"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have mentioned before that Butterscotch goes to bed quite a bit later than the rest of the girls. Last night I decided to photograph her.<\/p>\n

Butterscotch is very much her own girl and has loads of confidence. Sometimes Topaz will give her a quick peck to let her know that she is below her in the pecking order but Butterscotch hardly flinches.<\/p>\n

Very often all the girls will be perching on the ladders and branch perches but Butterscotch will be drifting around the run pecking and scratching. Sometimes she perches with them but not all of the time.<\/p>\n

The girls go into the chicken shed about forty minutes before the automatic door closes but Butterscotch goes in about twenty minutes before the door closes. I often wonder how she knows when to go in but she has never yet missed the door closing.<\/p>\n

\"Butterscotch<\/a>

Butterscotch at near dusk with her spiky hair do<\/p><\/div>\n

\"The<\/a>

The rest of the girls are getting into their bedtime positions<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Butterscotch<\/a>

Butterscotch has some pellets then some water<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Butterscotch<\/a>

Butterscotch looks as if she is about to go in<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Will<\/a>

Is she going in?<\/p><\/div>\n

The feet inside the shed belong to Peaches. She has jumped down so that she can jump back up again next to Barley.<\/p>\n

\"She<\/a>

She didn’t go in and is now pecking at stray pine shavings<\/p><\/div>\n

\"She<\/a>

She has some grit<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Meanwhile<\/a>

Meanwhile the rest of the girls have settled<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Butterscotch<\/a>

Butterscotch has some water<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Now<\/a>

Now Butterscotch takes up her bedtime position<\/p><\/div>\n

Jackie asked recently if the girls always faced a particular way. It seems to be quite random. I had thought that the first ones up with plenty of turning space would turn to face the front and those last up with no turning space would end up facing the back of the shed but I see in this photo that Emerald and Honey have space to turn but are facing the back of the shed.<\/p>\n

It does appear to be completely random. The only constant is that Peaches and Barley always try to be next to each other and Butterscotch is always around the middle. It may be that because Butterscotch is last into the shed the middle position is the easiest place for her to jump up.<\/p>\n

It is quite interesting to see how they line up and that Butterscotch doesn’t just follow the flock but very much does her own thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have mentioned before that Butterscotch goes to bed quite a bit later than the rest of the girls. Last night I decided to photograph her. Butterscotch is very much her own girl and has loads of confidence. Sometimes Topaz … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13762"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13762"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13796,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13762\/revisions\/13796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}