{"id":41694,"date":"2026-04-27T11:25:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T11:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=41694"},"modified":"2026-04-27T13:29:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T13:29:58","slug":"updates-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=41694","title":{"rendered":"Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mixing the girls has gone slower than I expected. I tried putting Mango, Cloud and Ginger on the new girls side to take the worst chasers out of the equation. It didn&#8217;t work. Gold, Storm and Silver who had taken no notice of the new girls before now constantly chased them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next day I put Gold and Snow in with the new girls. They took no notice of the new girls and the four got along fine but it&#8217;s not really helping with getting them mixing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday I mixed them and it seemed to be going fine for a while. I thought we were making progress but then suddenly the new girls were constantly being chased again. They once again ended up at the top of the ladder. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/not-taking-any-notice-of-each-other.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/not-taking-any-notice-of-each-other.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41699\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/not-taking-any-notice-of-each-other.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/not-taking-any-notice-of-each-other-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/not-taking-any-notice-of-each-other-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Not taking any notice of each other<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/getting-closer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/getting-closer.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/getting-closer.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/getting-closer-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/getting-closer-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Getting closer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>At this point, photo above, I thought it was going so well but then suddenly the chasing started again. The new girls were getting stressed so I separated them again.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In other news, on the egg front, there has been a slow down. Cloud remained broody for nearly two weeks. The odd thing is that the day Cloud went broody, Mango stopped laying. She hasn&#8217;t laid for two weeks but hasn&#8217;t gone broody either. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Red hasn&#8217;t yet started laying after her broody spell but I think she will come back into lay soon. Storm is only laying two or three eggs a week. Gold, Snow, Silver and Ginger are laying. They are now alternating the days they are laying so are we are getting two eggs a day. Snow and Gold will probably go broody again soon though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It will be good when the new girls start laying to get a few more eggs. First though I need to get them mixed. They always get there in the end so I guess I will have to just keep giving them time together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>Edit<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Red has just laid an egg after a break of eleven days. 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