{"id":33120,"date":"2021-05-05T10:58:55","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T10:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=33120"},"modified":"2021-05-05T10:58:55","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T10:58:55","slug":"two-broodies-again-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=33120","title":{"rendered":"Two broodies again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sugar has now been broody for five weeks and shows no sign of coming out of it. Yesterday Smoke went broody again. Smoke has laid ten eggs in fourteen days before going broody again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Smoke and Sugar went broody together five weeks ago. In the time that Sugar has been broody Smoke has been broody, come out of it and taken a weeks break, laid again and gone broody again. This is driving me crazy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sugar is so determined. I take her out of the nest box every time I go in to the run and yet she is showing no signs of loosening at all. I took a photo of the two broodies in the nest box and then lifted them out to the patio. I only had time to take one quick snap before Sugar headed straight back in again.<\/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\/05\/two-broody-girls-in-a-nest-box.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-33140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/two-broody-girls-in-a-nest-box.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/two-broody-girls-in-a-nest-box-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/two-broody-girls-in-a-nest-box-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption>Two broody girls in a nest box<\/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\/05\/i-lift-the-broody-girls-out-of-the-nest-box.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-33142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/i-lift-the-broody-girls-out-of-the-nest-box.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/i-lift-the-broody-girls-out-of-the-nest-box-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/i-lift-the-broody-girls-out-of-the-nest-box-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption>I lift the broody girls out of the nest box<\/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\/05\/sugar-is-heading-straight-back-in-again.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-33143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/sugar-is-heading-straight-back-in-again.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/sugar-is-heading-straight-back-in-again-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/sugar-is-heading-straight-back-in-again-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption>Sugar is heading straight back in again<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> It&#8217;s bad enough that Smoke is a serial broody and only ever lays for two weeks at a time but Sugar staying broody for so long is even worse, especially as she is so young and only ever laid  fourteen eggs since she started laying. Shadow has laid forty five eggs so far. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With all the other girls laying there is nothing I can do about this but wait it out. It is so frustrating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sugar has now been broody for five weeks and shows no sign of coming out of it. Yesterday Smoke went broody again. Smoke has laid ten eggs in fourteen days before going broody again. 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