{"id":39388,"date":"2025-01-06T16:11:41","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T16:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=39388"},"modified":"2025-01-06T16:11:41","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T16:11:41","slug":"the-shelter-is-very-popular-at-this-time-of-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=39388","title":{"rendered":"The shelter is very popular at this time of year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When the weather is awful as it has been recently the girls spend a lot of their time in the shelter. It’s Sugar’s favourite place during winter and the rest of the girls tend to gather around her. Mango and Cloud’s favourite spot is standing on the shelf in the shelter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Red joins them occasionally but Red is the busiest girl of the flock and is never still for long. Today the whole flock were together in the shelter including Red but when I returned with my camera Red was out and about again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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All the girls except Red are in the shelter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Red was busy scratching and pecking as usual<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Red always has muddy feet because she will venture out into the wet parts of the run. While most of the girls stick to the dry areas Red always covers the entire run. It’s difficult to get a good photo of Red because she is always on the move. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later today Red was in the nest box giving me a chance to get a better photograph of her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Red is getting ready to lay her egg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Storm is the nosiest girl of the flock and she will always check on Red in the nest box.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Storm checking on Red in the nest box<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Red has now been laying every other day like clockwork for the last two weeks. It is lovely to have one reliable egg layer at last. She will keep us going until the start of springtime eggs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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