{"id":21899,"date":"2017-07-20T09:44:26","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T09:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=21899"},"modified":"2017-07-20T09:53:53","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T09:53:53","slug":"progress-on-the-moult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=21899","title":{"rendered":"An update on the moult"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emerald and Speckles have been moulting for a couple of months and are now looking almost back to normal.<\/p>\n

Seramas are supposed to moult a few feathers at a time all year round but Rusty is now moulting more heavily. I am finding lots of fluffy little feathers under her roost spot and around the run. She is looking a little shabby but not too noticeable.<\/p>\n

Egg production is also down. Rusty hasn’t laid for two weeks now, since her three day broody spell. She would usually start laying again after two weeks but I think as she is moulting more than usual she probably won’t lay until it slows again.<\/p>\n

Freckles is laying the best as she is still laying every other day, with Cinnamon, Dandelion and Apricot laying only two or three eggs a week. We are still getting enough eggs for our weekend breakfasts though so I am happy not to need to buy any eggs.<\/p>\n

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Speckles has her fluffy bottom back<\/p><\/div>\n

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Emerald is still showing white feathers under her wing when in a certain position<\/p><\/div>\n

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Emerald is looking good when she stands tall<\/p><\/div>\n

Emerald has developed slightly grey tips to her feathers.<\/p>\n

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Rusty is moulting<\/p><\/div>\n

Rusty has some bare quills on her wings but no bare patches, she also has some loose fluff on her bottom.<\/p>\n

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Dandelion is looking good<\/p><\/div>\n

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Cinnamon<\/p><\/div>\n

Cinnamon is also losing some fluffy feathers and leaves them behind in the nest box when she lays her egg but she has a lovely red comb.<\/p>\n

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Apricot is looking good<\/p><\/div>\n

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Freckles is in her evening dust bath<\/p><\/div>\n

Since the hot weather Freckles has taken to having a dust bath at about half past six every evening. She is the only one of the girls to do this at this time of day.<\/p>\n

All in all I think the girls are looking pretty good. It is lovely to see them getting fully feathered again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Emerald and Speckles have been moulting for a couple of months and are now looking almost back to normal. Seramas are supposed to moult a few feathers at a time all year round but Rusty is now moulting more heavily. … 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\/21899"}],"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=21899"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21934,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21899\/revisions\/21934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}