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<\/a>This is what is happening at bedtime<\/p><\/div>\n
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<\/a>The silky girls are blocking the pop hole<\/p><\/div>\n
What happens is the amigos wait outside for the silky girls to perch. By that time the pop hole door is closing and some of them are not making it in.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>When I opened the main door the amigos wanted to play too<\/p><\/div>\n
This is where I become a distraction. By opening the main door it just encouraged the amigos to peck in the shavings too. Eventually I closed the door. The pop hole closed and I opened the door a little bit and put the silky girls on the back and the amigos on their perch.<\/p>\n
I swept the patio as they had scratched shavings out and checked back in. Salmon was sat on Vanilla’s back! Honestly, these girls! I put her back on the perch next to Vanilla and closed the door once more. I waited a minute then looked back in and took two more photos.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>The girls are now settled at the back<\/p><\/div>\n
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<\/a>The amigos are settled at last<\/p><\/div>\n
As it was dark it was a pot luck photo but I didn’t want to unsettle them by taking more than one.<\/p>\n
I think that I make it worse when I go up at bedtime so I will check on them when the pop hole has closed and just put the stragglers in. I don’t think bedtime is going to get any better than this for now.<\/p>\n
If the silky girls and the amigos were all part of one group I don’t think there would be a problem but because the amigos are below the silky girls in the pecking order they don’t have the courage to get past them when they are blocking the pop hole.<\/p>\n
We had talked about trying to train the amigos to go to the perch on the other side or making a perch on their side that was the same shape as the one on the other side but in the end I think that nothing will solve the problem because it is down to Sienna and Jasmine blocking the pop hole.<\/p>\n
At the end of the day it is a pecking order thing and that won’t change any time soon. By next year the dynamics of the flock may have changed but for now I will just have to put the stragglers in each night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tonight I went up to check on the girls before the pop hole closed and to take some photos of what is happening at bedtime. What happens is the amigos wait outside for the silky girls to perch. By that … Continue reading