{"id":13157,"date":"2015-12-01T18:49:11","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T18:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=13157"},"modified":"2015-12-01T19:22:24","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T19:22:24","slug":"catching-up-with-jackies-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=13157","title":{"rendered":"Catching up with Jackie’s girls"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I visited Jackie’s flock, we collected some greens from the allotment for our girls and then she visited my flock. Jackie had sent me a photo of Blossom (used to be my Bluebell) during her first really heavy moult. I had never seen her looking like this before. Jackie said it was a vast improvement from how she looked a week or so earlier.<\/p>\n

Blossom is four years old and has laid through her first three winters without a proper break or a full moult. This winter she stopped laying and moulted big time. I took my camera with me when I took Jackie back home.<\/p>\n

Bluebell is so shy that I struggled to get a photo of her and only managed one of her trying to escape behind a bush.<\/p>\n

\"Bluebell<\/a>

Bluebell has moulted and got her feathers back in<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Blossom<\/a>

Blossom and Chelsea<\/p><\/div>\n

Poor Blossom looks very shabby but it is Chelsea’s first winter and she is looking fabulous. She has a big red comb and perfect feathers.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>

A tatty looking Blossom<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Blossom<\/a>

Blossom and Chelsea<\/p><\/div>\n

\"They<\/a>

They enjoy some greens while Bluebell is too shy to join in in my presence<\/p><\/div>\n

It is so odd to see her looking like this but she does have rows of pristine tiny feathers on her back and she will soon be looking beautiful again. She also seems a lot more ginger on the front of her neck but as she was intent on eating greens I couldn’t get a shot of this.<\/p>\n

The next photos I put on here will be of Blossom looking back to her glorious best I am sure. What these poor girls have to go through to get their new feathers! It is funny how they all moult in their own way. It was really good to have a catch up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today I visited Jackie’s flock, we collected some greens from the allotment for our girls and then she visited my flock. Jackie had sent me a photo of Blossom (used to be my Bluebell) during her first really heavy moult. … 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\/13157"}],"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=13157"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13188,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13157\/revisions\/13188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}