{"id":23337,"date":"2017-11-14T00:41:11","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T00:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=23337"},"modified":"2017-11-14T00:41:11","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T00:41:11","slug":"different-stages-of-moulting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=23337","title":{"rendered":"Different stages of moulting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apricot seems to have had pin feathers on her head for ages and now Dandelion has pin feathers on her head. I wonder if this is more of a feature with silkie and frizzle feathered, girls because this hasn&#8217;t been noticeable on Freckles and Cinnamon, the straight feathered, girls.<\/p>\n<p>When we got Dandelion in February she had a bald head so I am pleased that during her moult she has kept her head covered.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_23350\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=23350\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23350\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23350\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23350\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/dandelion-has-pin-feathers-on-her-head.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/dandelion-has-pin-feathers-on-her-head.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/dandelion-has-pin-feathers-on-her-head-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/dandelion-has-pin-feathers-on-her-head-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23350\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dandelion has pin feathers on her head<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I have also been picking up her tail feathers and yet her tail looks no different from normal.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_23352\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=23352\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23352\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23352\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23352\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/apricots-head-feathers-are-almost-fully-opened.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/apricots-head-feathers-are-almost-fully-opened.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/apricots-head-feathers-are-almost-fully-opened-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/apricots-head-feathers-are-almost-fully-opened-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23352\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Apricot&#8217;s head feathers are almost back to normal<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_23353\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=23353\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23353\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23353\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23353\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/freckles-and-cinnamon-under-the-shelter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/freckles-and-cinnamon-under-the-shelter.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/freckles-and-cinnamon-under-the-shelter-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/freckles-and-cinnamon-under-the-shelter-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23353\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Freckles and Cinnamon under the shelter<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_23354\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=23354\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23354\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23354\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23354\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/dandelions-pins.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/dandelions-pins.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/dandelions-pins-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/dandelions-pins-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23354\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Another view of Dandelion&#8217;s pins on her head<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_23355\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=23355\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23355\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23355\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23355\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/freckles-looking-good.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/freckles-looking-good.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/freckles-looking-good-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/freckles-looking-good-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23355\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Freckles looking good<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_23356\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=23356\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23356\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23356\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23356\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/the-girls-have-some-mash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/the-girls-have-some-mash.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/the-girls-have-some-mash-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/the-girls-have-some-mash-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23356\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The girls having some mash<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Freckles moult hasn&#8217;t been noticeable at all apart from picking some feathers up from under her roost spot. Cinnamon sometimes looks a little scruffy and I am finding her little orange feathers. Sometimes she shows some grey under feathers, as in her wing, in this shot. Her tail feathers are also quite ragged if you compare them to Freckles.<\/p>\n<p>They all seem to be coming through the moult at the moment and Freckles is continuing to lay regularly. It is good to have one regular egg layer. Freckles is six months older than the three amigos so I don&#8217;t know if that makes a difference or if it just down to different girls varying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apricot seems to have had pin feathers on her head for ages and now Dandelion has pin feathers on her head. I wonder if this is more of a feature with silkie and frizzle feathered, girls because this hasn&#8217;t been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=23337\">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\/23337"}],"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=23337"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23360,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23337\/revisions\/23360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}