{"id":37416,"date":"2023-08-03T15:22:06","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T15:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=37416"},"modified":"2023-08-03T15:22:06","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T15:22:06","slug":"the-girls-have-some-tomato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=37416","title":{"rendered":"The girls have some tomato"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I gave the girls some chopped tomato which is an absolute favourite of theirs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/the-girls-have-some-tomato.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/the-girls-have-some-tomato.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-37450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/the-girls-have-some-tomato.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/the-girls-have-some-tomato-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/the-girls-have-some-tomato-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>The girls have some tomato<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It just happened that in the above photo the flock had split themselves into two halves. On the right are the five girls that I got from pipinchick. The three on the very right are this year&#8217;s girls and the next two last year&#8217;s girls. The flock now has five out of eight pipinchick girls. That&#8217;s an interesting progression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/enjoying-tomato.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/enjoying-tomato.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-37451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/enjoying-tomato.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/enjoying-tomato-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/enjoying-tomato-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Enjoying tomato which is gone in seconds<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Autumn loves all the treats and comes running to the patio area whenever I go through the gate to the run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the next bit of broody news Gold went broody five days ago. She is not very committed and has now come out of it again. That means we are back to three laying girls. We have Dot, Storm and Cloud laying at the moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It always seems that as one girl starts laying again another stops. It&#8217;s enough to keep us in eggs though so I am happy with that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mango gave up being broody four days ago. Unfortunately after Cloud had perched herself in the chicken shed for the four nights that Mango was broody this changed as soon as Mango gave up being broody. Once Mango started not going in at bedtime Cloud stayed out with her. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I really don&#8217;t know what to do to get Mango and Cloud to go in at bedtime. They usually settle on top of the nest box so for two evenings I blocked the top of the nest boxes by draping tarpaulin over it. They still didn&#8217;t go in and were just wandering on the patio area after the pop hole had closed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am out of ideas now and just resigned to putting them in each night. I am just hoping that when the darker, colder, nights of winter approach they might decide to go in. That is my only minor complaint though and I am happy to have a happy flock.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I gave the girls some chopped tomato which is an absolute favourite of theirs. It just happened that in the above photo the flock had split themselves into two halves. On the right are the five girls that I got &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=37416\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37416"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37416"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37463,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37416\/revisions\/37463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}