{"id":32083,"date":"2020-10-31T15:01:50","date_gmt":"2020-10-31T15:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=32083"},"modified":"2020-11-01T10:00:27","modified_gmt":"2020-11-01T10:00:27","slug":"marmite-is-moulting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=32083","title":{"rendered":"Marmite is moulting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One by one the little girls have been moulting.  Now it is Marmite&#8217;s turn and she is dropping feathers everywhere and looking rather tatty.<\/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\/10\/marmite-is-molting-.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32101\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/marmite-is-molting-.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/marmite-is-molting--300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/marmite-is-molting--768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption>Marmite is looking tatty<\/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\/10\/marmite-has-pins-on-her-head.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32102\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/marmite-has-pins-on-her-head.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/marmite-has-pins-on-her-head-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/marmite-has-pins-on-her-head-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption>Marmite has pins on her head<\/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\/10\/and-missing-head-feathers.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32103\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/and-missing-head-feathers.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/and-missing-head-feathers-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/and-missing-head-feathers-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption>And missing head feathers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Marmite only laid one egg this month with it&#8217;s usual soft shell and I am pleased that she has now stopped laying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In other news Smoke has just started laying again after her moult. She has laid three eggs in the last four days. Only Flame and Smoke are laying and with three nest boxes available they both want the same one.<\/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\/10\/smoke-is-laying-again.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32105\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/smoke-is-laying-again.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/smoke-is-laying-again-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/smoke-is-laying-again-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption>Smoke and Flame share a nest box<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> Oh well, nothing changes!<\/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\/11\/a-tatty-marmite.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32109\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/a-tatty-marmite.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/a-tatty-marmite-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/a-tatty-marmite-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption>Marmite the next day<br><br><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The next day Marmite looks even more tatty. She is the last girl to moult so they should all be looking good again soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One by one the little girls have been moulting. Now it is Marmite&#8217;s turn and she is dropping feathers everywhere and looking rather tatty. Marmite only laid one egg this month with it&#8217;s usual soft shell and I am pleased &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=32083\">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\/32083"}],"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=32083"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32110,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32083\/revisions\/32110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}