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What time do your girls put themselves to bed?

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6.30 to 7.00 and getting later every night as the days get longer. If I go to shut them in too soon after they have gone up to bed, then they come straight back out again!!

 

They never go in the eglu during the day except to lay an egg or to be nosy if I have cleaned out the nest

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Mine pop themselves to bed about 6.30 at the moment, just as you need a torch really. Patch was not sleeping when I went up to shut the door this evening, she was happily sat looking out of the eglu door, she semed most fed up when I shut the door! Bless her! They seem to be getting later as the days get longer.

 

Out of interest in mid summer do they go to bed really late, like at 10p.m? Or do they get really tired and go off to bed in the end?

 

Mx

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Rye always takes herself to bed a good hour before the other two, about 6pm and the others about 7 pm - althought last night I had to force them back in the run at 7 as they were still free ranging and I was getting concerned that foxes might be around and it was dark.

 

Tracy

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If they are confined to the cube run they go to bed as the sun is starting to set.

 

Both days that they escaped from their pen and roamed round the garden they completely forgot about bedtime as they were too busy foraging. I had to go out with a torch and shoo them back into the run after dark

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The bantams always go to bed first at about 4ish. The ex-batts go next. This is probably an hour or so later and the big girls usually go last at anything up to 7ish. They were out when it was getting quite dark last night and still managed to find their way back. I was amazed.

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