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<\/a>The three girls on the branch perch<\/p><\/div>\n
You will have to excuse the quality of these photos. I didn’t realise until I looked at these that I had a spot of dust on the lense.<\/p>\n
It was easy to pick each girl up one at a time and put them on the back perch of the chicken shed. Tonight I will move on to the next stage of herding them in so that in the future Flame will know where to go.<\/p>\n
![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/the-three-bigger-gilrs-in-the-chicken-shed.jpg\")
<\/a>The three girls in the chicken shed<\/p><\/div>\n
Today Flame was having a lovely dust bath but when I went back out with my camera she was just shaking herself. I decided to keep this action shot.<\/p>\n
![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/flame-has-a-shake-after-a-dust-bath.jpg\")
<\/a>Flame has a shake after a dust bath<\/p><\/div>\n
As you can see here these two girls are no longer bothering each other.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Flame is quite calm when I get close to her<\/p><\/div>\n
I think that Flame looks younger than Ebony. All we need now is for her to find the nest boxes and then she will be completely initiated into her new surroundings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
At the moment I can’t quite believe how easily the new girls have settled in. Ebony briefly chased Flame but I think that was just to show Flame that she is below Ebony in the pecking order. Now that that … Continue reading