{"id":38642,"date":"2024-07-04T17:18:23","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T17:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=38642"},"modified":"2024-07-04T17:21:31","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T17:21:31","slug":"updates-and-portraits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=38642","title":{"rendered":"Updates and Portraits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The girls have been mixed together for nearly a week now. It has gone really well and they have settled together with no more spats. There is just the occasional bit of chasing but nothing aggressive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately at bedtime Red and Snow have continued to settle on top of the nest box. I now have four girls to put in each night and all my efforts to guide the new girls in haven’t worked. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sugar has come through her broody spell after a few nights in the broody crate. Sugar still spends the majority of her time sitting in the run but when she is up and about she looks perfectly normal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Storm is now molting as well as Mango. Mango looks tatty but although I am picking up loads of Storm’s feathers from the chicken shed and run she still looks really good. She does have only a few tail feathers left though. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don’t know if the moult means that’s the end of eggs this year from Mango and Storm or if they come through it quickly maybe they will come back into lay. We can never tell how short the game girls’ season will be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I thought gold was coming back into lay after her two week break as for a couple of days she had a sit in the nest box. There was no egg though and today she hasn’t bothered sitting. She looks like she does every summer with a bit of an explosion of fluffy under feathers just before her tail. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We currently have Dot, Cloud and Snow laying. Snow has now sussed out all of the nest boxes and the chicken shed and mostly lays in the nest box by the gate as the other girls don’t bother her there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Autumn still has a sit in the nest box every day but doesn’t lay which is most odd. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A heap of sunbathing girls<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Before the portraits of the girls I couldn’t resist this photo of Dot, Storm and Mango sunbathing together. I have put the portrait photos on in the order that I took them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A slightly tatty Mango<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sugar spends most of her time sitting like this<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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But when she is up and about she looks perfectly normal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Every summer Gold looks like this<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Autumn<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Dot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Red and Snow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Red<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Snow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Cloud<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Cloud has the most amazing red comb and big for her small size. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And there are all my beautiful girls. Even with a bit of molting going on I think they are a stunning flock. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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