{"id":15045,"date":"2016-04-27T17:12:35","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T17:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=15045"},"modified":"2016-04-27T17:14:01","modified_gmt":"2016-04-27T17:14:01","slug":"one-of-butterscotchs-broody-habits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=15045","title":{"rendered":"One of Butterscotch’s broody habits"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every time Butterscotch goes broody she performs a strange habit. When I get her out for one of her breaks she always runs off and jumps on the log. She scratches and pecks at it for a moment then goes about her business, scratch, quick dust bath, large poop, pellets, water and back to the nest box.<\/p>\n

I meant catch this behaviour with photographs last time she was broody but kept missing my chance. This time round I thought I would try to catch it again.<\/p>\n

Once \u00a0again every time she did this I kept missing it. I either didn’t have my camera or when I did she had jumped down before I got the shot.<\/p>\n

Yesterday I finally got the shots I wanted. The thing that is so odd about this is that she only ever does this when she is broody. When she isn’t broody she never goes on the log.<\/p>\n

\"Butterscotch<\/a>

Butterscotch on the log<\/p><\/div>\n

\"She<\/a>

She is looking at me<\/p><\/div>\n

\"She<\/a>

She pecks at the log<\/p><\/div>\n

\"She<\/a>

She turns to face the other way<\/p><\/div>\n

She then jumps down and continues with her normal routine. Why should she only do this when broody? Why is this ritual connected to her being broody? It is most odd but unique and amusing to watch. Who can tell what goes on their chicken brains!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every time Butterscotch goes broody she performs a strange habit. When I get her out for one of her breaks she always runs off and jumps on the log. She scratches and pecks at it for a moment then goes … 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\/15045"}],"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=15045"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15076,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15045\/revisions\/15076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}