{"id":41076,"date":"2025-09-29T09:16:46","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T09:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=41076"},"modified":"2025-10-01T15:18:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T15:18:39","slug":"moulting-and-a-possible-broody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=41076","title":{"rendered":"Moulting and a possible broody"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Snow’s tail is now back to it’s full length. She has laid eleven eggs in seventeen days. I think she may be going broody as she has been spending most of the day in the nest box, despite laying for the last two days, yet when I lift her out for a break she stays out for quite a while so I am not sure yet. It could be that Snow is just slowing down to the end of this year’s egg laying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Snow has her full length tail back<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Red has been dropping piles of feathers and is looking quite tatty. She still has a fluffy bottom though. The feathers are now beginning to slow so I am hoping she is coming through her moult.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Red is looking tatty<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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She has loose fluffy feathers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Ginger has laid nine eggs in fifteen days but hasn’t laid for the last two days so it looks like she may be taking a break. Hopefully she will start laying again soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looking back at Red last year she started laying in November. Throughout November, December and January she would sometimes take a break of up to five days between eggs. From February onward she started laying every other day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am sure this is the same thing happening with Ginger. The shorter days are probably contributing to less eggs at the moment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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