{"id":8059,"date":"2014-06-03T09:18:49","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T09:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=8059"},"modified":"2014-06-03T19:34:32","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T19:34:32","slug":"the-grass-is-always-greener-on-the-other-side-of-the-fence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=8059","title":{"rendered":"The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I let the girls’ together at the end of each day they instantly switch sides. They rush to the feed dishes on the other side as if the food in the opposite dish must be better despite being identical.<\/p>\n

I give the girls’ some greens every day at mid morning. If I have a cabbage heart I hang it on wire from the gate. I did this this morning on the little girls side and the big girls’ frantically walked up and down the wire wanting to get to the cabbage. I hung some on the inside of the big girls gate and the little girls’ tried to peck at it from their side.<\/p>\n

Okay I can solve this. I moved the cabbage from the little girls’ side to hang on the other side of the big girls’ gate. Instant harmony as they could all peck away together.<\/p>\n

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Cabbage<\/p><\/div>\n

Honey isn’t with them as she is in the nest box laying her egg. Sparkle isn’t with them as she is a bit of a loner and shows no interest in joining in with the other girls’. Even if they have a dish of mash or scrambled egg Sparkle never joins in and she is always wandering about on her own and doesn’t let the other girls get too close her. They all have such different characters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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