{"id":19587,"date":"2017-02-28T18:14:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T18:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=19587"},"modified":"2017-02-28T18:16:34","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T18:16:34","slug":"the-shelter-gets-a-perch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=19587","title":{"rendered":"The shelter gets a perch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning when I opened up the little coop Apricot was first out. The new girls now come out straight away in the morning and head to the food dish.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19609\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=19609\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-19609\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19609\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19609\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/this_morning_when_i_opened_the_coop.jpg\" alt=\"This morning when I opened the coop\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/this_morning_when_i_opened_the_coop.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/this_morning_when_i_opened_the_coop-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/this_morning_when_i_opened_the_coop-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19609\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This morning when I opened the coop<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I added a bamboo perch to the new shelter and put Apricot on it to try it out.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19611\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=19611\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-19611\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19611\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19611\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/i_put_apricot_on_the_perch.jpg\" alt=\"I put Apricot on the perch\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/i_put_apricot_on_the_perch.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/i_put_apricot_on_the_perch-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/i_put_apricot_on_the_perch-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19611\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I put Apricot on the perch<\/p><\/div>\n<p>She wasn&#8217;t at all sure about that. She wobbled a bit then managed to turn herself around and jump down. She was out of there at speed. I am not sure the new girls are going to get the hang of the shelter any time soon.<\/p>\n<p>When I put them to bed tonight Apricot ran in to the shelter, had a buzz round, then ran back out again. I think she was a bit confused but at least she now knows that she can go in and out again. I am not sure these girls will ever use it but I know the rest of the flock would love to get in and have a scratch around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning when I opened up the little coop Apricot was first out. The new girls now come out straight away in the morning and head to the food dish. I added a bamboo perch to the new shelter and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=19587\">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\/19587"}],"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=19587"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19617,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19587\/revisions\/19617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}