{"id":24505,"date":"2018-03-07T14:41:17","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T14:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=24505"},"modified":"2018-03-07T14:41:17","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T14:41:17","slug":"eggs-glorious-eggs-and-spring-at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=24505","title":{"rendered":"Eggs glorious eggs and spring at last"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speckles laid her second egg today only two days after the first and if anything it&#8217;s even bigger. Freckles and Cinnamon are laying almost every other day too. I am so impressed with this because looking back on my egg chart, Speckles laid her first two eggs of the year, a week apart last year.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s because everything has started a little later this year. Maybe it&#8217;s because we are finally experiencing spring like weather.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_24515\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=24515\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-24515\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24515\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24515\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/speckles-second-egg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/speckles-second-egg.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/speckles-second-egg-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/speckles-second-egg-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24515\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Speckles second egg on the left<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_24516\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=24516\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-24516\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24516\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24516\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/speckles-second-egg-in-the-egg-stand.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/speckles-second-egg-in-the-egg-stand.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/speckles-second-egg-in-the-egg-stand-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/speckles-second-egg-in-the-egg-stand-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24516\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Freckles, Cinnamon&#8217;s and Speckles eggs<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It is so good to be getting regular eggs again. Hopefully I won&#8217;t need to buy any more eggs for a while.<\/p>\n<p>Today is the first day that it has really felt spring like in the garden. The frost and snow finally left us to be replaced with grey skies and rain. This afternoon the sun was shining. It felt like a surprise and suddenly felt like spring is in the air.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_24522\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=24522\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-24522\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24522\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24522\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/snowdrops.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/snowdrops.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/snowdrops-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/snowdrops-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24522\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Snowdrops<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Although these snowdrops are past their best it&#8217;s the first time they have really opened as they finally have some sun on them.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_24523\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=24523\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-24523\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24523\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24523\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/pink-helebore.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/pink-helebore.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/pink-helebore-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/pink-helebore-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24523\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pink hellebore<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This pink hellebore is stunning in the sunshine.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_24524\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=24524\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-24524\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24524\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24524\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/white-helebore.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/white-helebore.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/white-helebore-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/white-helebore-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24524\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">White hellebore<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Eggs and spring sunshine, hurrah!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speckles laid her second egg today only two days after the first and if anything it&#8217;s even bigger. Freckles and Cinnamon are laying almost every other day too. I am so impressed with this because looking back on my egg &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=24505\">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\/24505"}],"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=24505"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24526,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24505\/revisions\/24526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}