{"id":15022,"date":"2016-04-22T09:05:23","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T09:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=15022"},"modified":"2016-04-22T09:05:23","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T09:05:23","slug":"is-this-telepathy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=15022","title":{"rendered":"Is this telepathy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the past three days Emerald has shared a nest box with Butterscotch despite the other nest box being empty.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15033\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=15033\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15033\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15033\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15033\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/emerald_is_sharing_with_butterscotch_again.jpg\" alt=\"Emerald is sharing a nest box with Butterscotch\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/emerald_is_sharing_with_butterscotch_again.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/emerald_is_sharing_with_butterscotch_again-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/emerald_is_sharing_with_butterscotch_again-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15033\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emerald is sharing a nest box with Butterscotch<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_15034\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=15034\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15034\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15034\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15034\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/butterscotch_and_emerald.jpg\" alt=\"Butterscotch and Emerald together\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/butterscotch_and_emerald.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/butterscotch_and_emerald-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/butterscotch_and_emerald-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15034\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Butterscotch and Emerald together<\/p><\/div>\n<p>They look so cute together. Soon after I took this photo I checked back in on them and I knew that Emerald had just laid because she was standing up next to Butterscotch but no egg was in sight.<\/p>\n<p>I reached underneath Butterscotch and rolled Emerald&#8217;s egg out. Butterscotch promptly rolled the egg back underneath herself with her beak. I had to lift Butterscotch to retrieve the egg.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if Butterscotch has got some kind of telepathic communication going on with Emerald to make her lay her eggs next to her so that she can sit on them. It is interesting and quite funny and sweet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past three days Emerald has shared a nest box with Butterscotch despite the other nest box being empty. They look so cute together. Soon after I took this photo I checked back in on them and I knew &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=15022\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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\/15022"}],"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=15022"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15037,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15022\/revisions\/15037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}