{"id":29243,"date":"2019-07-06T09:05:31","date_gmt":"2019-07-06T09:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=29243"},"modified":"2019-07-06T09:08:23","modified_gmt":"2019-07-06T09:08:23","slug":"flame-has-laid-an-egg-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=29243","title":{"rendered":"Flame has laid an egg too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning Flame settled in a nest box after a bit of twirling around and I knew that she was getting ready to lay. I think that the broody spell set Ebony and Flame into an early moult and now the hot weather has halted their moult and kick started them laying again.<\/p>\n<p>When I next checked on Flame, Smoke was settled in the nest box with her, and when I checked a bit later Flame had laid and Smoke was sitting on her egg. I think Smoke is about to go broody again.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_29262\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=29262\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29262\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29262\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29262\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/smoke-and-flame-in-the-nest-box-together.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/smoke-and-flame-in-the-nest-box-together.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/smoke-and-flame-in-the-nest-box-together-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/smoke-and-flame-in-the-nest-box-together-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-29262\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smoke and Flame in the nest box together<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_29263\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=29263\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29263\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29263\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29263\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/flame-has-laid.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/flame-has-laid.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/flame-has-laid-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/flame-has-laid-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-29263\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flame has laid<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Flame&#8217;s, large, white, egg is on the left. Next is Ebony&#8217;s, then Smoke&#8217;s and Jasmine&#8217;s egg is on the right. I was correct with identifying Ebony&#8217;s egg yesterday as you can see that Flame&#8217;s egg is larger and paler.<\/p>\n<p>I have never had this happen before but I am happy that we will be getting some more eggs for a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning Flame settled in a nest box after a bit of twirling around and I knew that she was getting ready to lay. I think that the broody spell set Ebony and Flame into an early moult and now &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=29243\">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\/29243"}],"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=29243"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29267,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29243\/revisions\/29267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}