{"id":21182,"date":"2017-06-01T06:11:47","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T06:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=21182"},"modified":"2017-06-01T06:13:23","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T06:13:23","slug":"friendships-in-the-flock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=21182","title":{"rendered":"Friendships in the flock"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emerald and Speckles have become quite a twosome. They are often perching or sitting together.<\/p>\n

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Emerald and Speckles often perch together<\/p><\/div>\n

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Speckles and Emerald dust bath together<\/p><\/div>\n

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Emerald likes to stretch her wings out to the sun<\/p><\/div>\n

Emerald now has several white feathers under her wings which I think are a sign of her age. She has always liked to stretch her wings into the sun.<\/p>\n

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Dandelion and Cinnamon perch together<\/p><\/div>\n

These two are also always together and sometimes all of the three amigos perch together too. Rusty and Freckles also perch together but today Freckles was in the cat box, nest box, laying her egg.<\/p>\n

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Apricot practices in the nest box again<\/p><\/div>\n

Apricot now goes into the nest box each day to practice laying. After an hour I lift her out and she always goes to the apple and stays out after that. It’s a bit like dealing with a broody girl except not quite the same.<\/p>\n

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Emerald and Apricot share a bit of apple<\/p><\/div>\n

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Apricot has a peck at the apple<\/p><\/div>\n

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They peck at the apple together<\/p><\/div>\n

Emerald has the sweetest nature and will share treats with any other girl. Speckles and Freckles wouldn’t allow Apricot to share the same piece of apple like this but Emerald is just a sweetheart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Emerald and Speckles have become quite a twosome. They are often perching or sitting together. Emerald now has several white feathers under her wings which I think are a sign of her age. She has always liked to stretch her … 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\/21182"}],"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=21182"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21209,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21182\/revisions\/21209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}