{"id":3023,"date":"2013-02-17T10:04:08","date_gmt":"2013-02-17T10:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=3023"},"modified":"2013-02-17T10:04:08","modified_gmt":"2013-02-17T10:04:08","slug":"dottys-second-egg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=3023","title":{"rendered":"Dotty&#8217;s second egg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike the other girl&#8217;s Dotty laid her second egg the day after her first. There was a lot of egg laying noise going on and I went to take a look at Dotty on the nest but Bluebell was determined to get in on the act too.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3038\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/dottys_second_egg.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3038\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3038\" alt=\"Bluebell seems to want to join Dotty in the nest box\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/dottys_second_egg.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/dottys_second_egg.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/dottys_second_egg-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3038\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bluebell seems to want to join Dotty in the nest box<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_3039\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/bluebell_and_dotty.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3039\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3039\" alt=\"Bluebell watches Dotty in the nest box\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/bluebell_and_dotty.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/bluebell_and_dotty.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/bluebell_and_dotty-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3039\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bluebell watches Dotty in the nest box<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I thought that Bluebell wanted to lay as well but then I saw what was causing her interest. Bluebell had already laid and her egg was laying beside Dotty. I took the egg away and calm settled.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3040\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/dotty_in_the_nest_box.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3040\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3040\" alt=\"Dotty about to lay her second egg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/dotty_in_the_nest_box.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/dotty_in_the_nest_box.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/dotty_in_the_nest_box-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3040\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dotty about to lay her second egg<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Bluebell finally left Dotty to get on with it and when I went back a little later, there was Dotty&#8217;s second egg. It wasn&#8217;t quite as long as yesterdays but still paler than Pepper&#8217;s with little white specks on it. I think I will probably continue to be able to tell Pepper&#8217;s and Dotty&#8217;s eggs apart. Well done Dotty! Dotty started her egg laying, by laying two days in a row, maybe she is trying to make up for lost time. It will be interesting to see she lays another one tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike the other girl&#8217;s Dotty laid her second egg the day after her first. There was a lot of egg laying noise going on and I went to take a look at Dotty on the nest but Bluebell was determined &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=3023\">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\/3023"}],"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=3023"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3051,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3023\/revisions\/3051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}