{"id":28540,"date":"2019-04-27T12:21:39","date_gmt":"2019-04-27T12:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=28540"},"modified":"2019-04-27T12:21:39","modified_gmt":"2019-04-27T12:21:39","slug":"speckles-is-getting-ready-to-lay-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=28540","title":{"rendered":"Speckles is getting ready to lay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought that yesterday might have been the day. Speckles has been very vocal to the point of being annoying. She stands at the bottom of the run shouting. It seems that it is for no reason but I think she is trying to announce to the world that she is getting ready to lay.<\/p>\n<p>The hormones are raging and she has angrily had a go at Jasmine whenever she gets too close. She pulled a beak full of silky feathers from Jasmine&#8217;s back.<\/p>\n<p>Speckles then settled herself in the nest box and set about piling pine shavings on her back. Peace at last!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_28551\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=28551\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-28551\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28551\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28551\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/speckles-in-the-nest-box-with-pine-shavings-on-her-back.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/speckles-in-the-nest-box-with-pine-shavings-on-her-back.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/speckles-in-the-nest-box-with-pine-shavings-on-her-back-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/speckles-in-the-nest-box-with-pine-shavings-on-her-back-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-28551\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Speckles in the nest box with pine shavings on her back<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A bit later Speckles was back out in the run. I checked the nest box and &#8230;&#8230; nothing! No egg after all. More practice needed. Speckles always needs a bit of practice before laying her first egg after a break.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought that yesterday might have been the day. Speckles has been very vocal to the point of being annoying. She stands at the bottom of the run shouting. It seems that it is for no reason but I think &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=28540\">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\/28540"}],"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=28540"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28554,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28540\/revisions\/28554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}