{"id":23052,"date":"2017-10-16T12:10:06","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T12:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=23052"},"modified":"2017-10-16T12:10:06","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T12:10:06","slug":"moulting-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=23052","title":{"rendered":"Moulting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a fair bit of moulting going on at the moment. Emerald and Speckles seem to have been having a long drawn out moult. They are both still losing some feathers and Emerald has pin feathers on her bottom.<\/p>\n<p>Speckles now has a fluffy bottom and her white head has returned to black and white as the black spotted feathers have come back in.<\/p>\n<p>The little girls are all dropping feathers and only Freckles is still laying, she is laying three or four eggs a week. Apricot has a mass of pin feathers on her head and is sporting the porcupine look. I remember Pebbles looking like this so I think it must be a feature of the silky feathered girls.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_23063\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=23063\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23063\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23063\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23063\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/apricot_has_a_mass_of_pins-on_her-head.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/apricot_has_a_mass_of_pins-on_her-head.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/apricot_has_a_mass_of_pins-on_her-head-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/apricot_has_a_mass_of_pins-on_her-head-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23063\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Apricot has a mass of pins on her head<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_23064\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=23064\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23064\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23064\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23064\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/she_is_looking-lik_a_porcupine.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/she_is_looking-lik_a_porcupine.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/she_is_looking-lik_a_porcupine-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/she_is_looking-lik_a_porcupine-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23064\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">She is looking like a porcupine<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_23065\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=23065\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23065\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23065\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23065\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/freckles-is_the_only_girl_laying_and_taking_the_grit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/freckles-is_the_only_girl_laying_and_taking_the_grit.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/freckles-is_the_only_girl_laying_and_taking_the_grit-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/freckles-is_the_only_girl_laying_and_taking_the_grit-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23065\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Freckles is the only girl laying and therefore the only one going to the grit<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It is funny how they know that when they are laying they need the grit.<\/p>\n<p>All the girls should be looking back to their beautiful best soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a fair bit of moulting going on at the moment. Emerald and Speckles seem to have been having a long drawn out moult. They are both still losing some feathers and Emerald has pin feathers on her bottom. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=23052\">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\/23052"}],"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=23052"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23069,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23052\/revisions\/23069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}