{"id":4966,"date":"2013-06-22T16:39:01","date_gmt":"2013-06-22T16:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=4966"},"modified":"2013-06-22T16:40:47","modified_gmt":"2013-06-22T16:40:47","slug":"the-little-coop-is-officially-a-second-nest-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=4966","title":{"rendered":"The little coop is officially a second nest box"},"content":{"rendered":"

Honey laid her egg in the little coop yesterday. Dotty laid this morning (in the nest box) and Bluebell has taken a day off after her new record of laying for thirty eight days in a row!<\/p>\n

This afternoon Amber and Pepper both wanted to use the nest box at the same time. This is where the problem arose last time causing me to install the little coop as a second nest box. Pepper reluctantly tolerates sharing the nest box with the big girls but absolutely will not share with the little girls and last time pecked Honey’s comb until it bled.<\/p>\n

Amber is the smallest girl and also very feisty. She took possession of the nest box first. Pepper was not happy. She shouted and shouted, louder than I have ever heard her shout before. Her face went redder than I have ever seen it before. She was livid! She strutted around, kept looking in the nest box and kept shouting.<\/p>\n

Then to my surprise she went into the little coop and settled down.<\/p>\n

\"Pepper<\/a>

Pepper in the little coop<\/p><\/div>\n

We wanted to go out at this point but I didn’t want to leave with Pepper shouting or with the possibility of Amber getting her comb pecked. Now that Amber was in the nest box and Pepper was quietly installed in the little coop, I felt that I could safely leave them to it.<\/p>\n

We returned a couple of hours later and I went to check on them. To my surprise neither girl had laid an egg. Once again they had put themselves through all that upset when they weren’t even ready. Amber still doesn’t seem to have got the hang of when she needs to lay and Pepper often takes a long time to lay and does have false alarms from time to time.<\/p>\n

In the end though, it doesn’t matter which girl uses which coop as long as they can manage it without any bloodshed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Honey laid her egg in the little coop yesterday. Dotty laid this morning (in the nest box) and Bluebell has taken a day off after her new record of laying for thirty eight days in a row! This afternoon Amber … Continue reading →<\/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\/4966"}],"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=4966"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4982,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4966\/revisions\/4982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}