{"id":22000,"date":"2017-07-30T17:36:59","date_gmt":"2017-07-30T17:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=22000"},"modified":"2017-07-30T17:36:59","modified_gmt":"2017-07-30T17:36:59","slug":"coming-through-the-moult-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=22000","title":{"rendered":"Coming through the moult"},"content":{"rendered":"

The two bigger girls are getting to the end of their moult. I think Emerald is finished but I am still picking up loads of feathers from Speckles. They both look pretty good though.<\/p>\n

The little girls look much the same as they always do but egg production has slowed so I think they do lose more feathers at this time of year.<\/p>\n

This is the first year that speckles has an all white head after her moult and it has changed her appearance a bit. It is interesting to see how they change.<\/p>\n

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Speckles has an all white head this year<\/p><\/div>\n

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The white dips down lower on the left side at the back of her head<\/p><\/div>\n

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Her other side<\/p><\/div>\n

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

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She has her tail back<\/p><\/div>\n

I love the glossy sheen to Emerald’s feathers. I love seeing the slight changes that come about after each year’s moult. These girls are changing little by little just as we do.<\/p>\n

I know that I am biased but I do think that we have a beautiful flock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The two bigger girls are getting to the end of their moult. I think Emerald is finished but I am still picking up loads of feathers from Speckles. They both look pretty good though. The little girls look much the … 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\/22000"}],"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=22000"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22019,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22000\/revisions\/22019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}