{"id":33066,"date":"2021-04-27T14:47:03","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T14:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=33066"},"modified":"2021-04-27T14:47:03","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T14:47:03","slug":"updates-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=33066","title":{"rendered":"Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Yesterday four girls were dust bathing in the sun in a row. I managed to take one photo and then before I could get closer the battery died. I do wish my camera gave me some warning when the battery is low.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A row of dust bathing girls<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Salmon is looking great. It is two weeks since she last laid and I am rather apprehensive of what will happen when she starts laying again. It is also two weeks since Flame last laid and she has been looking in the nest boxes over the last couple of days so I know that she is getting ready to lay again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Salmon is looking great<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Sugar is still broody after three and a half weeks. She was a month later laying than Shadow and then she only laid for two weeks. Eleven eggs then broody which is the quickest of any of our girls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It takes three weeks to hatch an egg so usually even if you leave a girl to be broody they start to come out of it after three weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sugar is still broody after three and a half weeks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I put Sugar in the run<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I lift her out every time I go in the chicken run. I put her in the run and she just sits like this. I give her a little shove or several and she will run off and have a dust bath at speed then straight back in the nest box or sometimes she will just turn round and go back in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For one and a half weeks we were getting one egg a day and I was closing the nest boxes and just letting in the laying girl each day. That was when Sugar spent her whole time jumping on me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gradually the non laying girls started up again and for the past week we have had two, three or four eggs a day so I can no longer close the nest boxes. This means Sugar has been staying in the nest box all the time except when I lift her for a break.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sugar is showing no sign of coming out of this and we are wondering how long she is going to keep this up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from Flame who is looking like starting to lay again any day now there are only Sugar and Salmon not laying. It’s a pity Salmon can’t just stop laying for the rest of the summer but I know that she will start again soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am just keeping everything crossed that Salmon will be able to lay okay and I am hoping that Sugar will give up being broody soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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