{"id":21420,"date":"2017-06-18T12:41:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-18T12:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=21420"},"modified":"2017-06-18T12:43:38","modified_gmt":"2017-06-18T12:43:38","slug":"now-we-know-we-do-like-peas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=21420","title":{"rendered":"Now we know we do like peas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday was the hottest day this summer so far and this time Rusty, and, Dandelion and Cinnamon were in the sun with their beaks open. This is my first summer of having seramas and I am beginning to think that they like the sun so much that they are willing to get hot in the sun while at the same time cooling themselves through their beaks.<\/p>\n

I know that chickens cool themselves through their open beaks in the same way that dogs pant when they are hot. My past experience with chickens has been of them doing this when overheating despite finding some shade. Seramas choose to sit in the sun and do this.<\/p>\n

I did a bit of research on this and it concluded that some birds will seek shade while others will choose to sit in the sun. It said that some birds simply like it hot. I think that probably sums up seramas.<\/p>\n

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Rusty, open beaked in the sun, again<\/p><\/div>\n

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Dandelion and Cinnamon doing the same<\/p><\/div>\n

Seeing them with eyes glazed and beaks open does unsettle me but they choose to do this while the rest of the flock sit in the shade.<\/p>\n

I decided to try giving them some peas once more. I guess I will have to let them choose if they want to bake in the sun, after all I do the same myself sometimes, but I thought that a distraction wouldn’t go amiss.<\/p>\n

I tipped the peas onto the patio and there was no hesitation this time.<\/p>\n

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The girls come to investigate<\/p><\/div>\n

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There is no hesitation in eating the peas this time<\/p><\/div>\n

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All the girls join in eating the peas<\/p><\/div>\n

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I think that they have decided that they do like peas<\/p><\/div>\n

They have got over their distrust of the peas and have decided that they do like them. I think they would take them from the dish now as a few girls were looking in the dish that I had emptied on to the patio.<\/p>\n

I think I will have to get used to trusting that the seramas are okay in the sun, even though they look hot, with their beaks open. The seramas are all laying eggs every other day so are obviously happy. Even after six years of chicken keeping I am still finding out new things and each breed is quite different.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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