{"id":17412,"date":"2016-10-03T18:28:11","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T18:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=17412"},"modified":"2016-10-03T18:30:07","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T18:30:07","slug":"we-catch-up-our-re-homed-girls-at-whitehouse-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=17412","title":{"rendered":"We catch up our re homed girls at Whitehouse Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"

This afternoon we needed disposables for our business and instead of having them delivered we decided to go and collect them so that we could check in on our re homed girls.<\/p>\n

It was a really bright and sunny afternoon and I couldn’t see the screen on my camera so the photos aren’t great as it was a case of, point and guess, while clicking away. It gives the gist of the afternoon though.<\/p>\n

I took a little pot of sunflower hearts to get the girls in to the open so\u00a0that\u00a0I could take photos.<\/p>\n

I was thrilled to bits to see that Butterscotch had all her head feathers back in. She was back to her former glory with her bouffant hair style back in place.<\/p>\n

\"Butterscotch,<\/a>

Butterscotch, Dotty and Honey<\/p><\/div>\n

Butterscotch is on the left of the group, Dotty is in the middle and Honey is on the right in the foreground. She is moulting and has lost her tail. This sight is so familiar to me.<\/p>\n

\"Butterscotch<\/a>

Butterscotch is on the right<\/p><\/div>\n

Butterscotch on the right of the photo has a full head of crest feathers. The geese are in the background and they all get along together.<\/p>\n

\"Butterscotch<\/a>

Butterscotch with Claude the cockerel<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Butterscotch\"<\/a>

Butterscotch in the middle of the photo<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Butterscotch<\/a>

Butterscotch with Dotty and Honey forming a little triangle<\/p><\/div>\n

I love the way that amongst Moira’s larger flock, she has about twenty girls, “my” girls are so together.<\/p>\n

\"Dotty\"<\/a>

Dotty is at the back in the \u00a0centre with Butterscotch on the right and Honey has her head down<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Honey<\/a>

Honey has lost her tail<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Honey<\/a>

Honey still gets really close to me<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Pekin\"<\/a>

One of Moira’s pekin bantams<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Claude<\/a>

Claude the cockerel<\/p><\/div>\n

Just as I finished taking photos Moira spotted me and came over for a chat. I told her how pleased I was that Butterscotch was looking so good. Moira said that she felt that Butterscotch was enjoying the freedom of free ranging on the farm and that she was a very independent girl.<\/p>\n

Butterscotch always was like that with us. She always did her own thing and wasn’t dependent on the rest of the flock.<\/p>\n

This afternoon made me so happy. It proved to me that I had made the right decision. Butterscotch can now go broody in peace, enjoy free ranging and keep her head feathers as they should be. She is having a good life and looking beautiful again.<\/p>\n

I am so glad that we paid the girls a visit today and I am glad that we waited long enough to see Butterscotch back to her former glory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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