{"id":30143,"date":"2019-11-01T15:18:10","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T15:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=30143"},"modified":"2019-11-01T15:18:10","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T15:18:10","slug":"marmite-is-broody-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=30143","title":{"rendered":"Marmite is broody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have had the feeling, over the last few days, that Marmite was about to go broody. She has laid fifteen eggs in twenty five days which is pretty good going. The last few days she has spent longer in the nest box and started making the clucking sound.<\/p>\n<p>Last night at bedtime when I checked on the girls the automatic door was just closing and Marmite was in the nest box. I lifted her to the bedtime perch.<\/p>\n<p>This morning Smoke wanted to lay her egg in the same nest box that Marmite was occupying so she decided to share.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_30154\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=30154\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-30154\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30154\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30154\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/smoke-and-marmite-share-a-nest-box.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/smoke-and-marmite-share-a-nest-box.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/smoke-and-marmite-share-a-nest-box-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/smoke-and-marmite-share-a-nest-box-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-30154\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smoke and Marmite share a nest box<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Notice the difference in their tails. Smokes has the normal, together, tail and Marmite has the, fanned out, broody tail. As soon as Smoke had laid her egg Marmite promptly sat on it and shouted loudly when I removed it.<\/p>\n<p>Being broody in November is ridiculous!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have had the feeling, over the last few days, that Marmite was about to go broody. She has laid fifteen eggs in twenty five days which is pretty good going. The last few days she has spent longer in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=30143\">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\/30143"}],"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=30143"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30156,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30143\/revisions\/30156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}