{"id":26705,"date":"2018-10-19T07:57:46","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T07:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=26705"},"modified":"2018-10-19T07:57:46","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T07:57:46","slug":"our-flock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=26705","title":{"rendered":"Our flock"},"content":{"rendered":"

I love seeing our flock all together. When I started my chicken keeping journey I thought that I would be happy with just three girls. Over the years it changed into extending the run and extending the flock.<\/p>\n

I now love having a flock of twelve and can’t imagine having just a few girls. I especially love those moments when they all come together.<\/p>\n

Last night I thought that I would try to capture this when giving out the bedtime corn. As I go up to the run I always talk to the girls and the entire flock run to the bottom end of the\u00a0 run to greet me. As I walk past the side of the run the girls follow me up.<\/p>\n

I go through the gate and the girls crowd around my feet on the patio area. I have to be very careful where I place my feet as I try to move through the girls to the cabinet for the corn.<\/p>\n

I usually scatter the corn out into the run so that all the girls can get a share but last night I sprinkled a little on the patio area and quickly snapped a few photos.<\/p>\n

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Our flock<\/p><\/div>\n

It’s difficult to get all the girls in shot and Ebony is only just in the foreground.<\/p>\n

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Having some bedtime corn<\/p><\/div>\n

What a colourful little crowd the flock is. I scattered their corn into the run and they quickly hoovered it up. They then spend some time scratching to make sure that they haven’t missed a bit. I love to see them like this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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