{"id":33136,"date":"2021-05-11T15:55:27","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T15:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=33136"},"modified":"2021-05-11T15:58:28","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T15:58:28","slug":"back-to-just-sugar-being-broody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=33136","title":{"rendered":"Back to just Sugar being broody"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Recently Smoke hasn’t been so committed to staying broody. Smoke still goes broody as often but this time and last time she has come out of it after one week exactly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have been lifting both the broody girls out of the nest boxes every time I go to check on the girls and I close the nest boxes at the end of the day. Smoke has been perching in the chicken shed at bedtime but Sugar refuses to perch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of the day I have been lifting both broody girls out of the nest boxes and closing them then I give out some sunflower hearts. Sugar has a few sunflower hearts then runs straight into the chicken shed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The longest Sugar stays out is to have a dust bath. Sugar now knows the nest boxes will be closed at the end of the day and she speeds her way into the chicken shed. If I try to perch her at dusk she will just keep dropping down again. It has now been six weeks which would be enough time to hatch eggs twice over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This afternoon I wanted to take some photos of all the flock now that Smoke is staying out in the run. I lifted Sugar from the nest box and placed her out in the run. I then put a dish of chopped tomato on the patio area to see if I could get a photo of all the girls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sugar made her way to the patio area and I waited to see if she would go to the dish of tomato. She didn’t but she did stop briefly to peck at a piece of apple on her way back into the nest box.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I give the girls some chopped tomato<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sugar makes her way to the patio area<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sugar ignores the tomato but pecks at a piece of apple on her way back to the nest box<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sugar makes her way back up the ramp<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sugar is back in the nest box<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We are beginning to wonder if Sugar is going to stay like this forever. Smoke has now been broody twice and out of it again in the time that Sugar has remained broody and she is showing no sign of coming out of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is such a strange situation. I wonder how long Sugar is going to continue like this. I hope she isn’t going to stay like this all summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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