{"id":28051,"date":"2019-03-07T17:13:04","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T17:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=28051"},"modified":"2019-03-07T17:13:04","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T17:13:04","slug":"speckles-is-definitely-getting-ready-to-lay-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=28051","title":{"rendered":"Speckles is definitely getting ready to lay again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the last couple of days when I have gone to stroke Speckles she has dropped into a squat. She is definitely getting ready to lay. Today she sat in the nest box nearest the chicken shed and was piling pine shavings on to her back.<\/p>\n<p>I really thought she was going to produce her first egg of the year but she later came out with out laying an egg. Even an older girl sometimes needs a bit of practice.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_28061\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=28061\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-28061\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28061\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28061\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/speckles-in-the-nest-box.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/speckles-in-the-nest-box.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/speckles-in-the-nest-box-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/speckles-in-the-nest-box-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-28061\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Speckles in the nest box<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_28062\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=28062\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-28062\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28062\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28062\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/speckles-puts-pine-shavings-on-her-back.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/speckles-puts-pine-shavings-on-her-back.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/speckles-puts-pine-shavings-on-her-back-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/speckles-puts-pine-shavings-on-her-back-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-28062\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Speckles is putting shavings on her back<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Oh well, maybe tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the last couple of days when I have gone to stroke Speckles she has dropped into a squat. She is definitely getting ready to lay. Today she sat in the nest box nearest the chicken shed and was piling &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=28051\">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\/28051"}],"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=28051"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28064,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28051\/revisions\/28064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}