{"id":15312,"date":"2016-05-21T14:55:25","date_gmt":"2016-05-21T14:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=15312"},"modified":"2016-05-21T14:55:25","modified_gmt":"2016-05-21T14:55:25","slug":"corn-cobs-for-the-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=15312","title":{"rendered":"Corn cobs for the girls"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last Saturday we visited my eldest son and his wife for the day, in Cambridge. Before we left I gave the girls some corn cobs to keep them occupied while we were out, along with apples and some spinach. The corn cobs were in a pack of four and were on offer.<\/p>\n

\"Emerald<\/a>

Emerald and Barley were the first to investigate the corn<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Barley,<\/a>

Barley, Peaches and Toffee peck the corn<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Corn\"<\/a>

Speckles wants to find a way in<\/p><\/div>\n

I only had time for a few photos as we left at half past eight. We got back at six o’clock and the corn cobs were completely stripped.<\/p>\n

This Saturday I \u00a0suddenly remembered that there were still the other two corn cobs in the fridge. I had to trim them down to fit in the square feeders as they were fatter than the first two.<\/p>\n

\"Emerald<\/a>

Emerald and Toffee were the first to the corn this time<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Peaches<\/a>

Peaches joins in<\/p><\/div>\n

Because I had trimmed one side I couldn’t turn them round as there was no corn on the other side so I decided to put them on the patio for the girls to finish them.<\/p>\n

\"Four<\/a>

Four girls pecking at the corn<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Five<\/a>

Five girls pecking at the corn<\/p><\/div>\n

Butterscotch is missing because she was having such a lovely dust bath that she couldn’t leave it even for a treat.<\/p>\n

\"Butterscotch<\/a>

Butterscotch in her dust bath<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Headless<\/a>

Headless chicken<\/p><\/div>\n

I think the girls enjoyed the corn and Butterscotch enjoyed her dust bath.<\/p>\n

The not so good news is that I have caught Barley pulling pins from Butterscotch’s head again. She has now lost the pins from her head and has a triangular bare patch.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>

A bare patch once more on Butterscotch’s head<\/p><\/div>\n

I am so disappointed at this as her head was filling in nicely. She does still seem to have some new tiny white pins, see the tiny white dots, so she may still get some head feathers.<\/p>\n

I have come to the conclusion that I can’t keep fretting over this. Whatever will be will be. I remember how awful Honey and Amber used to look and think to myself that this is nothing in comparison. It would be good to see her with feathers on her head though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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