{"id":20312,"date":"2017-04-05T06:05:28","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T06:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=20312"},"modified":"2017-04-05T06:05:28","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T06:05:28","slug":"rustys-first-egg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=20312","title":{"rendered":"Rusty&#8217;s first egg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have known for a while that Rusty was ready to start laying. She has been squatting when I hold my hand over her and has been more vocal.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday afternoon she was very vocal and then settled in the nest box.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20321\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=20321\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20321\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20321\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20321\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/rusty_in_the_nest_box.jpg\" alt=\"Rusty in the nest box\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/rusty_in_the_nest_box.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/rusty_in_the_nest_box-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/rusty_in_the_nest_box-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20321\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rusty in the nest box<\/p><\/div>\n<p>She laid her first egg which is huge compared to Freckles eggs. No wonder it had a few streaks of blood on it. It is also much paler than Freckles eggs which are a beige colour.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20322\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=20322\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20322\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20322\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20322\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/rustys_egg_on_the-right_and_freckles-last_two_on_the-left_and_centre.jpg\" alt=\"Rusty's egg on the right of Freckles last two eggs\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/rustys_egg_on_the-right_and_freckles-last_two_on_the-left_and_centre.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/rustys_egg_on_the-right_and_freckles-last_two_on_the-left_and_centre-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/rustys_egg_on_the-right_and_freckles-last_two_on_the-left_and_centre-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20322\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rusty&#8217;s egg is on the right of Freckles last two eggs<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_20323\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=20323\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20323\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20323\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20323\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/rustys_egg_in_the_middle_of_freckles_eggs.jpg\" alt=\"Rusty's egg in the middle of Freckles eggs\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/rustys_egg_in_the_middle_of_freckles_eggs.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/rustys_egg_in_the_middle_of_freckles_eggs-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/rustys_egg_in_the_middle_of_freckles_eggs-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20323\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rusty&#8217;s egg in the middle of Freckles eggs<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Well done Rusty, what a clever girl!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have known for a while that Rusty was ready to start laying. She has been squatting when I hold my hand over her and has been more vocal. Yesterday afternoon she was very vocal and then settled in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=20312\">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\/20312"}],"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=20312"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20327,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20312\/revisions\/20327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}