{"id":26247,"date":"2018-08-27T10:39:52","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T10:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=26247"},"modified":"2018-08-27T10:46:14","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T10:46:14","slug":"bedtime-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=26247","title":{"rendered":"Bedtime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night once the main flock had gone to bed I moved Sienna and Jasmine to the perch with Dandelion and Cinnamon. I am going to do this each night to try to train the silkie girls to perch there.<\/p>\n<p>My reasons for this are that if the new girls perch they won&#8217;t have to compete with Sienna and Jasmine but can have the perch to themselves and if they don&#8217;t perch but huddle in the corner they won&#8217;t get pooped on.<\/p>\n<p>The bigger girls are at last starting to go in on their own as the days are getting shorter and cooler.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_26259\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=26259\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26259\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26259\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26259\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/i-have-moved-sienna-and-yasmine-next-to-dandelion-and-cinnamon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/i-have-moved-sienna-and-yasmine-next-to-dandelion-and-cinnamon.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/i-have-moved-sienna-and-yasmine-next-to-dandelion-and-cinnamon-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/i-have-moved-sienna-and-yasmine-next-to-dandelion-and-cinnamon-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-26259\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I moved Sienna and Jasmine next to Dandelion and cinnamon<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The three bigger girls had already settled in the back corner. Jasmine and Sienna moved to the end of the perch. They obviously didn&#8217;t want to be right next to Dandelion and Cinnamon.<\/p>\n<p>We then herded the new girls into the chicken shed. They were not at all happy with this and kept coming back out. I resorted to putting them in their usual little coop and returned to move them once the pop hole had closed.<\/p>\n<p>I picked them up one by one and put them on the perch.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_26260\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=26260\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26260\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26260\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26260\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/i-put-all-five-new-girls-on-the-perch.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/i-put-all-five-new-girls-on-the-perch.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/i-put-all-five-new-girls-on-the-perch-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/i-put-all-five-new-girls-on-the-perch-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-26260\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I put all five new girls on the perch<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_26261\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=26261\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26261\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26261\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26261\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/a-few-seconds-later-they-were-in-a-heap-in-the-corner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/a-few-seconds-later-they-were-in-a-heap-in-the-corner.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/a-few-seconds-later-they-were-in-a-heap-in-the-corner-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/a-few-seconds-later-they-were-in-a-heap-in-the-corner-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-26261\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A few seconds later they all jumped down and were in heap in the corner<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I tried lifting them back up again but they all jumped straight back down. I think perhaps I am trying to rush things a bit so I have decided to let them settle in the corner for a while. I am sure that they will perch up when they are ready.<\/p>\n<p>If I can get them to go in the chicken shed tonight without popping out again I will be happy with that. It usually takes a couple of nights for new girls to get the hang of it but I am sure it won&#8217;t take long.<\/p>\n<p>I have decided to put a mix of chick crumb and growers pellets in the three dishes out in the run and a mix of growers and layers pellets in the dish on the patio area. Once the girls stop laying I will put growers in all the dishes until after the winter. By this time the new girls will be ready to go on to layers.<\/p>\n<p>The new girls have already grown in confidence today and have been using the entire run and the perches. I am happy with the progress and integrations of late have been so much easier than in the past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night once the main flock had gone to bed I moved Sienna and Jasmine to the perch with Dandelion and Cinnamon. 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