![\"I](\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/i_use_the_temporary_gate_to_keep_the_new_girls_from_the_ladders.jpg\")
<\/a>I use the temporary gate to keep them from the ladder<\/p><\/div>\n
![\"Cinnamon](\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/cinnamon_close_up.jpg\")
<\/a>Cinnamon close up<\/p><\/div>\n
![\"Dandelion](\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/dandelion_close_up.jpg\")
<\/a>Dandelion close up<\/p><\/div>\n
![\"Apricot](\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/apricot_close_up.jpg\")
<\/a>Apricot close up<\/p><\/div>\n
![\"These](\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/a_tight-pair_of_girls.jpg\")
<\/a>These two are a tight pair of girls<\/p><\/div>\n
They stick together at all times. Dandelion’s head feathers have taken forever to open but are finally nearly there. You can see from this photo how tiny Cinnamon is but despite this she is the best digger of the three. She loves to dig and digs the deepest holes of all.<\/p>\n
I felt confident enough once more to leave the girls in this part of the run for a while. I pottered in the garden near by.<\/p>\n
![\"Clematis\"](\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/clematis.jpg\")
<\/a>Clematis<\/p><\/div>\n
This is the clematis on the fence which we look out of the kitchen window on to. It is better this year than it has ever been.<\/p>\n
![\"The](\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/blossom.jpg\")
<\/a>The blossom on this shrub is lovely at the moment<\/p><\/div>\n
We put this in for some height but I can’t now remember what it is.<\/p>\n
A little later I opened up the run again and inevitably the three girls went back to the ladder. I just don’t get this obsession with the ladders. I knew they would be back down for the bedtime corn though so I decided that it was time to leave them to it.<\/p>\n
When I went out to give them the bedtime corn they weren’t on the ladder but were sat together on the log with the rest of the flock around them. This is progress. I really think we are finally about there with this.<\/p>\n
After dinner we checked on the girls and once again Apricot had gone in and found her perch. She is such a clever girl.<\/p>\n
![\"Apricot](\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/apricot_once_again_finds_the-perch_by_herself.jpg\")
<\/a>Apricot puts herself to bed on her perch<\/p><\/div>\n
Dandelion was by the pop hole and Cinnamon was by the closed little coop next boxes. I retreated to see if they could work it out for themselves.<\/p>\n
I went back at quarter to eight and there were no girls outside. I looked in the shed and was amazed to find that they had put themselves on the perches. We had put another perch in a few days ago, above the first one, because we know that once the girls get confidant with perching they prefer to go a bit higher.<\/p>\n
![\"Cinnamon](\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/cinnamon_is-next_to_apricot.jpg\")
<\/a>Cinnamon was perched next to Apricot<\/p><\/div>\n
![\"And](\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/and_dandelion_is_on_the_higher_perch.jpg\")
<\/a>And Dandelion was on the higher perch<\/p><\/div>\n
What clever girls! I am so thrilled. This was easier than Freckles and Rusty at bedtime. I am so proud of them and I think I can safely say, that whatever else needs improvement, we have cracked bedtime. Well done little girls!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It is now five weeks since we got the new girls and I should probably stop calling them the new girls. I have decided to leave them mixed all the time now and just wait for them to get brave … Continue reading