{"id":24743,"date":"2018-03-28T17:44:42","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T17:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=24743"},"modified":"2018-03-28T17:44:42","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T17:44:42","slug":"i-am-trying-to-change-the-bedtime-habit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=24743","title":{"rendered":"I am trying to change the bedtime habit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I tried moving the two bigger girls from the perch over the hatch before bedtime but every time I went back to check on them they had returned to the perch.<\/p>\n<p>I decided more drastic action was needed. I decided to block the perch with the door that we keep for closing the hatch during integrations.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_24761\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=24761\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-24761\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24761\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24761\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/perch-blocker.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/perch-blocker.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/perch-blocker-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/perch-blocker-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24761\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Perch blocker<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This usually hangs above the perch so that it is to hand when needed so I have now hung it over the perch. It is raining and as you can see this perch is wet which is why it&#8217;s not a good spot to roost although I don&#8217;t actually want the girls roosting in any spot outside. I want them to roost inside where it is warm and dry.<\/p>\n<p>I know that if it is raining like this at bedtime they won&#8217;t perch here anyway but I am leaving the perch blocker in place until I have broken this habit. That is if the plan works!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tried moving the two bigger girls from the perch over the hatch before bedtime but every time I went back to check on them they had returned to the perch. I decided more drastic action was needed. I decided &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=24743\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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\/24743"}],"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=24743"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24763,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24743\/revisions\/24763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}