{"id":32960,"date":"2021-04-12T15:21:59","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T15:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=32960"},"modified":"2021-04-12T15:21:59","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T15:21:59","slug":"three-broody-girls-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=32960","title":{"rendered":"Three broody girls!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yesterday Flame went broody. Flame has been laying for six weeks and has never gone broody this early in the year before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t remember ever having three broody girls before. Loads of times there have been two as Smoke is a serial broody and will coincide with another girl from time to time.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a bit frustrating because Flame is one of our best layers. Flame lays two days out of three whereas Ebony lays every other day at best and hasn&#8217;t laid for the last three days. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This will leave us with much fewer eggs and not many of the bigger eggs. It also clogs up the nest boxes. Last night I closed all the nest boxes before bedtime as it also means moving three girls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By closing the nest boxes it meant that both Flame and Smoke perched at bedtime. Sugar settled in the corner of the chicken shed but it meant I only had to lift one girl to the perch rather than three.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/broody-flame-and-broody-sugar-together.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32982\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/broody-flame-and-broody-sugar-together.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/broody-flame-and-broody-sugar-together-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/broody-flame-and-broody-sugar-together-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption>Broody Flame and broody Sugar together<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/broody-smoke-next-door.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32983\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/broody-smoke-next-door.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/broody-smoke-next-door-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/broody-smoke-next-door-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption>Broody Smoke next door<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/i-lift-out-sugar-then-flame.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32984\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/i-lift-out-sugar-then-flame.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/i-lift-out-sugar-then-flame-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/i-lift-out-sugar-then-flame-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption>I lift out Sugar and then Flame<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/i-lift-out-smoke.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32985\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/i-lift-out-smoke.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/i-lift-out-smoke-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/i-lift-out-smoke-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption>I lift out Smoke<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ebony in the background is looking in the nest box because I have lifted the lid. She always likes to take a look when I look in but she didn&#8217;t go in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wonder if Flame laying her eggs beside broody Sugar has triggered her going broody. Flame does like company in the nest box and it&#8217;s not the first time she has been broody alongside a little girl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I guess we are going to be having less eggs for a while. We won&#8217;t be able to gift any more for a while. Sigh!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Flame went broody. Flame has been laying for six weeks and has never gone broody this early in the year before. I don&#8217;t remember ever having three broody girls before. Loads of times there have been two as Smoke &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=32960\">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\/32960"}],"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=32960"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32994,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32960\/revisions\/32994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}