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<\/a>And she has laid it<\/p><\/div>\n
With seven girls now laying, and a future potential of all nine girls laying, it won’t be a bad thing if some of them are happy to lay in the chicken shed. I always keep it clean and it’s a large space and dark enough for them to feel happy to lay in .<\/p>\n
I wonder why Emerald chose to lay there but she can be funny sometimes about the nest boxes. Sometimes when she wants to lay she runs about looking a bit manic as if she can’t find the right place to lay. Maybe she gets fed up of the nosey girls (Peaches and Barley) always looking in on her.<\/p>\n
It will be interesting to see where she decides to lay her next egg. She is a good layer, laying every other day and sometimes two days in a row. She and Freckles lay a similar amount of eggs each week. Emerald always stops laying at the end of May though. Game girls have a short season.<\/p>\n
I am happy for any of the girls to lay in the chicken shed and we feel that we really don’t need to make another nest box now. The chances are it wouldn’t get used anyway. None of the girls went in the cat box except to flick out the shavings. It will be much better if some of the girls use the shed than having a nest box out in the run. It looks as if the girls have solved the problem for themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
While I was washing all the chicken feed and water dishes I could hear Emerald scratching around in the chicken shed. I checked both nest boxes and they were empty. I checked on Emerald and she had made a nest … 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\/20705"}],"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=20705"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20765,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20705\/revisions\/20765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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