{"id":32621,"date":"2021-03-09T13:34:38","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T13:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=32621"},"modified":"2021-03-09T13:35:31","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T13:35:31","slug":"sugar-lays-her-second-egg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=32621","title":{"rendered":"Sugar lays her second egg"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sugar laid her second egg today, four days after her first egg and this time I caught her in the nest boxes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shadow also laid her egg just before Sugar and what with that and broody Smoke being in a nest box there was a lot of back and forth and quite a bit of shouting on Sugar&#8217;s part. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was the first time that I had heard Sugar shout and she is a loud girl!<\/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\/2021\/03\/sugar-started-off-in-the-nest-box-by-the-gate.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32633\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/sugar-started-off-in-the-nest-box-by-the-gate.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/sugar-started-off-in-the-nest-box-by-the-gate-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/sugar-started-off-in-the-nest-box-by-the-gate-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption>Sugar started off in the nest box by the gate<\/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\/2021\/03\/sugar-then-moved-to-the-nest-box-by-the-chicken-shed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32634\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/sugar-then-moved-to-the-nest-box-by-the-chicken-shed.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/sugar-then-moved-to-the-nest-box-by-the-chicken-shed-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/sugar-then-moved-to-the-nest-box-by-the-chicken-shed-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption>Sugar then moved to the nest box by the chicken shed<\/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\/2021\/03\/and-settled-in-there.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32635\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/and-settled-in-there.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/and-settled-in-there-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/and-settled-in-there-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption>Sugar settled in this nest box and laid her egg<br><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Smoke was in the nest box next door which is next to the store cupboard. Sugar&#8217;s egg is smaller than her first one but again it is oval shaped compared to Shadow&#8217;s round egg and this time no blood smear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well done Sugar!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sugar laid her second egg today, four days after her first egg and this time I caught her in the nest boxes. Shadow also laid her egg just before Sugar and what with that and broody Smoke being in a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=32621\">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\/32621"}],"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=32621"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32639,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32621\/revisions\/32639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}