{"id":24093,"date":"2018-01-21T07:57:22","date_gmt":"2018-01-21T07:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=24093"},"modified":"2018-01-21T07:57:22","modified_gmt":"2018-01-21T07:57:22","slug":"bedtime-dust-bath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=24093","title":{"rendered":"Bedtime dust bath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apricot has a habit of, quite often, having a dust bath just before bedtime. She waits until I have given the girls the bedtime corn then digs herself a dust hole. I always think the dust she is flicking over herself must be rather cold at this time of day.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_24105\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=24105\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-24105\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24105\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24105\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/apricot-has-a-dust-bath-before-bedtime.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/apricot-has-a-dust-bath-before-bedtime.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/apricot-has-a-dust-bath-before-bedtime-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/apricot-has-a-dust-bath-before-bedtime-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24105\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Apricot has a dust bath before bedtime<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_24106\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=24106\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-24106\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24106\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24106\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/apricot-dust-bathing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/apricot-dust-bathing.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/apricot-dust-bathing-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/apricot-dust-bathing-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24106\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">End of day dust bath<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When she has finished she shakes herself off and joins the rest of the girls at the patio ready to make their way into the chicken shed for the night.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday was the first day back on tylan and by the afternoon Dandelion had managed to clear the crust from her eye. I wanted to see if she could clear it herself, without my help, and despite being there all morning it was gone by the afternoon. I assume that, like last time, she scratched it off.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_24111\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=24111\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-24111\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24111\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24111\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/dandelions-right-eye-is-clear.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/dandelions-right-eye-is-clear.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/dandelions-right-eye-is-clear-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/dandelions-right-eye-is-clear-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24111\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dandelion&#8217;s right eye is now clear<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I hope that with the milder weather that is forecast this may be the end of this for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apricot has a habit of, quite often, having a dust bath just before bedtime. 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