{"id":28031,"date":"2019-03-05T18:18:04","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T18:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=28031"},"modified":"2019-03-05T18:18:04","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T18:18:04","slug":"salmon-has-a-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=28031","title":{"rendered":"Salmon has a problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We seem to be beset with egg laying problems. Smoke, Marmite and Spangle have been laying with no problems. Jasmine has struggled and her eggs have thin shells which I know is what is giving her a bit of a problem.<\/p>\n<p>Salmon has taken ages to get going with one egg in January and one egg in February. Over the last week she has been practising. She would sit in the nest box for about half an hour and then give up.<\/p>\n<p>Today she didn&#8217;t look happy. This is now such a familiar posture to me that I know it is a sign of struggling to lay an egg probably because of a thin shell.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_28043\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=28043\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-28043\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28043\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28043\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/salmon-has-a-problem.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/salmon-has-a-problem.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/salmon-has-a-problem-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/salmon-has-a-problem-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-28043\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Salmon is not a happy girl<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I hate to see them like this but there is nothing I can do to help her. I hope that over the next day or so she gets her egg laid and bounces back.<\/p>\n<p>When I gave out the bedtime corn Salmon wasn&#8217;t at all interested which is a sign of how uncomfortable she must be. To make matters worse by this time Jasmine wasn&#8217;t looking very happy either. I hope they soon get their eggs laid and get back to normal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We seem to be beset with egg laying problems. Smoke, Marmite and Spangle have been laying with no problems. Jasmine has struggled and her eggs have thin shells which I know is what is giving her a bit of a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=28031\">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\/28031"}],"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=28031"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28049,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28031\/revisions\/28049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}