{"id":21426,"date":"2017-06-19T09:20:54","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T09:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=21426"},"modified":"2017-06-19T09:21:55","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T09:21:55","slug":"emerald-is-moulting-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=21426","title":{"rendered":"Emerald is moulting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emerald is dropping feathers all around the run. There are lots of feathers under her roost spot each morning.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_21449\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=21449\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21449\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21449\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21449\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/emeralds_feathers_under_her_roost_spot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/emeralds_feathers_under_her_roost_spot.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/emeralds_feathers_under_her_roost_spot-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/emeralds_feathers_under_her_roost_spot-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-21449\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emerald&#8217;s feathers under her roost spot<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_21450\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=21450\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21450\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21450\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21450\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/again.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/again.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/again-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/again-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-21450\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emerald&#8217;s feathers<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Her under feathers, the one on the left, now have a lot of white on them. Her outer feathers, the one in the middle and on the right, are black with an emerald (hence her name) and purple sheen.<\/p>\n<p>As she is getting older her under feathers are more streaked with white. I think it is like us getting grey hair as we age. Emerald has more white streaks on her feathers each year. I find this quite interesting.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_21472\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=21472\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21472\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21472\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21472\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/emerald_-is-_just_begining_-to_look_a_little_bit_tatty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/emerald_-is-_just_begining_-to_look_a_little_bit_tatty.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/emerald_-is-_just_begining_-to_look_a_little_bit_tatty-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/emerald_-is-_just_begining_-to_look_a_little_bit_tatty-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-21472\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emerald is starting to look a bit tatty<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_21473\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=21473\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21473\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21473\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21473\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/emerald.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/emerald.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/emerald-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/emerald-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-21473\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emerald<\/p><\/div>\n<p>She is still a beautiful girl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emerald is dropping feathers all around the run. There are lots of feathers under her roost spot each morning. Her under feathers, the one on the left, now have a lot of white on them. Her outer feathers, the one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=21426\">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\/21426"}],"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=21426"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21478,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21426\/revisions\/21478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}