{"id":35582,"date":"2022-09-15T10:15:58","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T10:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=35582"},"modified":"2022-09-15T10:20:41","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T10:20:41","slug":"diamond-has-her-own-perch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=35582","title":{"rendered":"Diamond has her own perch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When I realised that Diamond was too big and heavy to jump up to the bedtime perches I ordered a pair of free standing perches from Amazon. They only came as a pair and were described as heavy so they wouldn’t tip and suitable for any chicken. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have to say they were inexpensive so I probably shouldn’t have expected too much from them. They were not what I would call heavy and they were much narrower than I expected. However they were perfect for the broody crate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the time I was breaking Sugar from her last broody spell. She hopped on to this perch and stayed on it overnight. It stayed upright when she jumped down. For a serama I would say it was perfect but not for any girl bigger than a serama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As usual a few nights in the broody crate did the trick and Sugar started laying again four days ago and has laid two eggs so far. This means we now have three girls laying, Snowflake, Dot and Sugar. Gold hasn’t resumed laying as she is having a partial moult and is dropping feathers everywhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The spare perch is in the broody crate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The first night I put Diamond on the perch it had tipped over by morning when she jumped off. Luckily we had some heavy, chunky bits of wood in the shed so my husband cut a piece to size and attached the perch to this. This made the perch a bit higher and very stable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The perch no longer tipped over but I still felt that it wasn’t wide enough for Diamonds feet. My husband then added a piece from the shed that we had left over from making perches. It was now the right size for Diamond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The perch has been adapted for Diamond<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The flash on my camera no longer works so this photo isn’t very good but it does give the gist of Diamond on her perch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The bedtime line up with Diamond on her own perch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It was worth buying the perches as with a few adaptations we have solved the problem for Diamond and the perch in the broody crate is better than what we did before which was to jam a perch between the bars. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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