{"id":3767,"date":"2013-04-20T11:21:58","date_gmt":"2013-04-20T11:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=3767"},"modified":"2013-04-20T11:25:28","modified_gmt":"2013-04-20T11:25:28","slug":"getting-ready-for-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=3767","title":{"rendered":"Getting ready for summer"},"content":{"rendered":"

First an update on Bluebell after her broody afternoon in the nest box the day before yesterday. Yesterday Pepper and Dotty laid an egg but Bluebell missed a day and behaved as normal. It’s unusual for Bluebell to miss a day after only three days in a row as she usually averages about twenty in a row, so the missed day may have had something to do with her broodiness. Today she laid her egg early this morning and her behaviour is still back to normal so I think the missed day broke her short broody spell.<\/p>\n

Today we decided to take the cover off the garden part of the run. I have been thinking about this for a while as I want the girls to have direct sunlight but worry that if we have a wet summer like last year we will back to mud and the girls constantly having muddy feet. We are trying to come up with ideas of some sort of cover that could be pulled across during wet spells and opened up when dry. We have decided to leave the triangular corner bit covered for now.<\/p>\n

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The run with the cover on<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Inside<\/a>

Inside the run with the cover on<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Pepper<\/a>

Pepper and Bluebell obscuring my view<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Inside<\/a>

Inside the run without the cover<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Umbrella<\/a>

Umbrella down<\/p><\/div>\n

\"The<\/a>

The girls reaction to the closed umbrella<\/p><\/div>\n

We then decided to close the umbrella to allow more sun into the run but the girls don’t like the umbrella closed. They retreated to the safety of the coop roof. I left the umbrella down for a while to see if they would get used it but when I went back to check on them they were all hiding behind the big bush. I relented and put the umbrella back up and normality was immediately restored! I am not sure if they will ever get used to the umbrella being closed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First an update on Bluebell after her broody afternoon in the nest box the day before yesterday. Yesterday Pepper and Dotty laid an egg but Bluebell missed a day and behaved as normal. It’s unusual for Bluebell to miss a … Continue reading →<\/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\/3767"}],"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=3767"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3809,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3767\/revisions\/3809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}