{"id":42100,"date":"2026-07-10T09:29:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T09:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=42100"},"modified":"2026-07-10T09:29:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T09:29:34","slug":"three-broodies-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=42100","title":{"rendered":"Three broodies together"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I opened a nest box and the three broody girls piled in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/three-broodies-together.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/three-broodies-together.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/three-broodies-together.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/three-broodies-together-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/three-broodies-together-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Three broody girls together<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I have now solved this problem. Both Maple and Cloud have been laying their eggs in the nest box that&#8217;s out in the run. For some reason the broody girls don&#8217;t see that nest box as one to sit and brood in. Therefore I am now keeping the other nest boxes closed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maple and Cloud are the only two laying girls at the moment and I don&#8217;t expect Cloud to keep going much longer. Cloud stopped laying last year during the first week of July. I was very surprised that she has started laying again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All eggs are a bonus at the moment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I opened a nest box and the three broody girls piled in. I have now solved this problem. Both Maple and Cloud have been laying their eggs in the nest box that&#8217;s out in the run. For some reason the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=42100\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42100"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42174,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42100\/revisions\/42174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}