{"id":31496,"date":"2020-07-17T09:23:56","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T09:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=31496"},"modified":"2020-07-18T09:09:07","modified_gmt":"2020-07-18T09:09:07","slug":"the-moult-is-speeding-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=31496","title":{"rendered":"The moult is speeding on"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I am now picking up a full punnet ( which is what I use for poop picking ) of feathers from both the run during the day and the chicken shed in the morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I photographed Speckles and Flame again yesterday, just the next day, from the photos taken for the previous post and more tail feathers had fallen out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/speckles-has-one-remaining-tail-feather.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/speckles-has-one-remaining-tail-feather.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/speckles-has-one-remaining-tail-feather-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/speckles-has-one-remaining-tail-feather-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption>Speckles has one remaining tail feather<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/flame-has-no-tail-feathers.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31511\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/flame-has-no-tail-feathers.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/flame-has-no-tail-feathers-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/flame-has-no-tail-feathers-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption>Flame has no tail feathers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t suppose it will be long before Speckles last tail feather falls out. I always think the girls look very odd without their tails. Tail feathers do seem to grow back quickly though unlike head feathers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new tail feathers will already be there underneath and will soon grow to their usual length. These girls will soon be back to normal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the next day:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/speckles-now-has-no-tail.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/speckles-now-has-no-tail.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/speckles-now-has-no-tail-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/speckles-now-has-no-tail-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption>Speckles now has no tail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As I had expected it wasn&#8217;t long before Speckles had no tail. She does look quite cute though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am now picking up a full punnet ( which is what I use for poop picking ) of feathers from both the run during the day and the chicken shed in the morning. I photographed Speckles and Flame again &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=31496\">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\/31496"}],"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=31496"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31516,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31496\/revisions\/31516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}