{"id":3281,"date":"2013-03-16T00:08:57","date_gmt":"2013-03-16T00:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=3281"},"modified":"2013-03-16T07:07:37","modified_gmt":"2013-03-16T07:07:37","slug":"beak-to-beak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=3281","title":{"rendered":"Beak to beak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seeing Pepper and Dotty beak to beak yesterday, brought back memories of when I first had them at only a month old.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3310\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/beak_to_beak2.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3310\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3310\" alt=\"Dotty and Pepper beak to beak yesterday\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/beak_to_beak2.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/beak_to_beak2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/beak_to_beak2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3310\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dotty and Pepper beak to beak yesterday<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Pepper on the right and Dotty on the left.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3311\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/dotty_and_pepper_beak_to_beak-1.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3311\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3311\" alt=\"Dotty and Pepper beack to beack at a month old\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/dotty_and_pepper_beak_to_beak-1.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/dotty_and_pepper_beak_to_beak-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/dotty_and_pepper_beak_to_beak-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3311\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dotty and Pepper beak to beak at a month old<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Pepper on the right and Dotty on the left (they even seem to keep to the same position)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3312\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/dotty_and_poppy_beak-to_beak.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3312\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3312\" alt=\"Dotty and Pepper beack to beack\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/dotty_and_poppy_beak-to_beak.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/dotty_and_poppy_beak-to_beak.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/dotty_and_poppy_beak-to_beak-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3312\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dotty and Poppy beak to beak<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Dotty in the foreground and Poppy facing the camera.<\/p>\n<p>Poppy turned out to be a roo and had to be returned to the farm where I had got her from (they were going to breed from Poppy) and I then bought home Treacle and Bluebell. Pepper and Dotty have been really close since these early days and this early behaviour still exists between them. I love that I can look back at them at only a month old and yet see this behaviour replicated now when they are adult. These two girls are still a tight pair and I don&#8217;t think this early bond will easily be broken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seeing Pepper and Dotty beak to beak yesterday, brought back memories of when I first had them at only a month old. Pepper on the right and Dotty on the left. 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