{"id":18376,"date":"2016-12-04T09:28:48","date_gmt":"2016-12-04T09:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=18376"},"modified":"2016-12-04T09:29:46","modified_gmt":"2016-12-04T09:29:46","slug":"getting-used-to-flock-life-after-toffee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=18376","title":{"rendered":"Getting used to the flock  without Toffee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first day after Toffee had gone the flock seemed split into groups of the three little girls as usual and two pairs, being Peaches and Barley who have always been inseparable and a new pairing of Emerald and Speckles. I had the feeling that Emerald was missing Toffee and so paired up with Speckles for company.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18417\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=18417\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18417\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18417\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18417\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/three_little_girls_share_some_fish.jpg\" alt=\"Three little girls share a dish if fish\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/three_little_girls_share_some_fish.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/three_little_girls_share_some_fish-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/three_little_girls_share_some_fish-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18417\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Three little girls share a dish of fish<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_18418\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=18418\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18418\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18418\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18418\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/peaches_and_barley_perch_together.jpg\" alt=\"Peaches and barley perch together like a pair of bookends\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/peaches_and_barley_perch_together.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/peaches_and_barley_perch_together-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/peaches_and_barley_perch_together-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18418\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peaches and Barley perch together like a pair of bookends<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_18419\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=18419\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18419\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18419\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18419\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/speckles_and_emerald_together.jpg\" alt=\"Speckles and Emerald perch together\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/speckles_and_emerald_together.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/speckles_and_emerald_together-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/speckles_and_emerald_together-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18419\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Speckles and Emerald perch together<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_18420\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=18420\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18420\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18420\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18420\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/three_little_girls_at_bedtime.jpg\" alt=\"Three little girls at bedtime in their usual positions\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/three_little_girls_at_bedtime.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/three_little_girls_at_bedtime-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/three_little_girls_at_bedtime-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18420\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Three little girls at bedtime in their usual positions<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_18421\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=18421\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18421\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18421\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18421\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/peaches_and_barley_perch_together_the-first_night_after-Toffee_had_gone.jpg\" alt=\"Peaches and Barley together at bedtime\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/peaches_and_barley_perch_together_the-first_night_after-Toffee_had_gone.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/peaches_and_barley_perch_together_the-first_night_after-Toffee_had_gone-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/peaches_and_barley_perch_together_the-first_night_after-Toffee_had_gone-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18421\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peaches and Barley together at bedtime<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_18422\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=18422\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18422\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18422\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18422\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/emerald_and_speckles-perch_together.jpg\" alt=\"Emerald and Speckles together at bedtime\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/emerald_and_speckles-perch_together.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/emerald_and_speckles-perch_together-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/emerald_and_speckles-perch_together-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18422\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emerald and Speckles together at bedtime with Emerald in Toffee&#8217;s corner<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_18424\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=18424\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18424\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18424\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18424\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/first_night_after_toffee.jpg\" alt=\"The first night after Toffee had gone\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/first_night_after_toffee.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/first_night_after_toffee-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/first_night_after_toffee-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18424\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The first night after Toffee had gone<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The second day after Toffee had gone the four remaining bigger girls grouped together. At bedtime they were all four together with Emerald still taking Toffee&#8217;s position in the corner.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18425\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=18425\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18425\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18425\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18425\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/second_night_after_toffee.jpg\" alt=\"The second night after Toffee had gone\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/second_night_after_toffee.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/second_night_after_toffee-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/second_night_after_toffee-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18425\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The second night after Toffee had gone<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I think the flock is adjusting to the loss of Toffee as are we. It still seems very strange not seeing her each day. She has left a hole in the flock and it is taking time to get used to not seeing her with her flock mates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first day after Toffee had gone the flock seemed split into groups of the three little girls as usual and two pairs, being Peaches and Barley who have always been inseparable and a new pairing of Emerald and Speckles. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=18376\">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\/18376"}],"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=18376"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18453,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18376\/revisions\/18453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}