{"id":40239,"date":"2025-06-03T09:37:58","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T09:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=40239"},"modified":"2025-06-03T09:41:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T09:41:05","slug":"no-girls-in-the-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=40239","title":{"rendered":"No girls in the run"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In all our years of chicken keeping this has never happened before. We went up yesterday afternoon and there were no chickens in the run, empty run! They were all in the three nest boxes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mango and Cloud have now gone broody together. Of course together because they do everything together! The thing that drives me crazy when these two go broody together is that they take on mother and chick roll and Mango sits on top of Cloud. It’s always this round, always Mango on top of Cloud. And they egg each other on, excuse the pun, making it harder to break them out of it, plus it means losing two egg layers at once. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Snow is still broody although I think she is loosening as she is staying out in the run a bit longer. That leaves three remaining laying girls, that being Red, Gold and Storm. So I went up to check on them with my camera. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mango and Cloud are broody together<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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They are joined by a very vocal Storm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Storm settles in the nest box beside them<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Next door broody Snow is in with Red<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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In the third nest box is Gold<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Red, Gold and Storm got their eggs laid and I then turfed the broodies out and closed the nest boxes and the shed for the rest of the day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is definitely the most broody year we have ever had, sigh!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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