{"id":41899,"date":"2026-05-23T13:20:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T13:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=41899"},"modified":"2026-05-23T13:25:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T13:25:58","slug":"yogurt-treat-and-broodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=41899","title":{"rendered":"Yogurt treat and broodies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This morning I gave the girls a yogurt treat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The girls have a yogurt treat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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An integrated flock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Popcorn is turning out to be a good layer. She laid four days in a row recently before taking a day off and starting again. In other news Popcorn perched at bedtime last night for the first time, hurrah! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Red went broody for the shortest time so far. I know she is getting ready to go broody when she spends longer and longer in the nest box before laying her egg. She had spent half the day in the nest box before laying her egg and two days later spent all day in the nest box before laying her egg. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I thought that was her gone broody so after the laying girls had laid I closed the nest boxes. The following day I did the same thing and Red laid an egg in the run. She obviously had one more egg to lay. However because she had been shut out and laid in the run she didn’t return to the nest boxes from then on. It seemed to have broke her out of her broody spell instantly and she isn’t laying but isn’t going in the nest boxes either. Red had laid twelve eggs in twenty one days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now Snow has gone broody because she has laid her regulation eight eggs, this time in eleven days. She had been laying two days in a row and at one point three days in a row. Snow likes to lay in the chicken shed so I blocked the pop hole and she has stayed out in the run. I am hoping with the hot weather to break any broody girls as quickly as possible. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We now have Gold, Ginger and Popcorn as our only laying girls at the moment. It is a constant change though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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