{"id":12910,"date":"2015-10-25T15:19:58","date_gmt":"2015-10-25T15:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=12910"},"modified":"2015-10-25T15:19:58","modified_gmt":"2015-10-25T15:19:58","slug":"peaches-and-barleys-combs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=12910","title":{"rendered":"Peaches and Barley’s combs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Of all the girls Peaches and Barley’s combs have gone through the most noticeable change while moulting. This is because they have floppy combs and while they were laying eggs their combs were big and red. Barley’s comb was especially big and it made it easy for me to tell them apart at a glance.<\/p>\n

Barley’s comb flops to the right and Peaches flops to the left but when their combs are big I don’t have to check which way they flop as I can tell Barley immediately by the size and angle of her comb.<\/p>\n

Peaches and Barley stopped laying at the end of August and started to moult. Their combs got smaller and smaller and paler and paler. I have just taken some photos of them today to compare with photos of them last year in November when they had just started to lay their first eggs.<\/p>\n

Below are some photos that I took today.<\/p>\n

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Barley is on the left and Peaches is on the right<\/p><\/div>\n

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Barley and Peaches combs are small and pale<\/p><\/div>\n

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Barley and Peaches<\/p><\/div>\n

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Barley’s comb in the foreground<\/p><\/div>\n

Below are some photos I took last November. As it was their first year they didn’t moult and continued to lay all winter.<\/p>\n

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Barley and peaches with big, red combs<\/p><\/div>\n

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They can hardly see out from under their combs, Barley is on the left<\/p><\/div>\n

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Barley is on the left and Peaches is on the right<\/p><\/div>\n

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Barley’s huge comb and wattles<\/p><\/div>\n

It is amazing how different they look. I am looking forward to spring when their combs return to being big and red and they start to lay their lovely eggs again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Of all the girls Peaches and Barley’s combs have gone through the most noticeable change while moulting. This is because they have floppy combs and while they were laying eggs their combs were big and red. Barley’s comb was especially … 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\/12910"}],"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=12910"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12933,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12910\/revisions\/12933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}