{"id":33664,"date":"2021-09-07T07:16:54","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T07:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=33664"},"modified":"2021-09-07T07:16:54","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T07:16:54","slug":"moulting-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=33664","title":{"rendered":"Moulting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We have had the worst August that I can remember. It has been cloudy and cold the for the whole month with drizzle some days and no sun at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This weather seems to have triggered an early end to eggs and an early moult for the seramas. They usually stop laying half way through September but all the seramas stopped laying half way through August this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For weeks now I have been finding feathers in the chicken shed and in the run. Salmon and Shadow are looking a bit tatty but the rest of the girls don’t look much different despite the amount of feathers I am finding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shadow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Salmon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sugar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Spangle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Smoke<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Smoke came out of her broody spell after a week. As only Ebony and Flame are laying and both lay on the same day, every other day, I decided to break Sugar out of her broody spell. Sugar had been broody for two weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I closed the nest boxes and Put Sugar in the broody crate for two nights. This was enough to break her out of it so we are once again between broodies for now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The girls have been hanging out together in a close group with lots of preening going on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The girls hang out together<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The good thing is the girls will be through the moult before winter. I expect Smoke will lay through winter as she usually does and I wouldn’t be surprised if Sugar lays through winter too. Time will tell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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