{"id":33106,"date":"2021-04-30T12:43:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T12:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=33106"},"modified":"2021-04-30T12:43:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T12:43:00","slug":"salmon-lays-a-good-shelled-egg-hurrah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=33106","title":{"rendered":"Salmon lays a good shelled egg, hurrah!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yesterday Salmon was looking in the nest boxes and I felt sure that she was getting ready to lay again. Flame had also been looking in the nest boxes for a couple of days and laid her first egg since going broody yesterday and her second one today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It had been three weeks since Flame last laid and it had also been three weeks since Salmon last laid. I felt a bit nervous about Salmon coming back into lay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today Salmon went in the nest box a couple of times and came out again. A little later Salmon settled in the nest box.<\/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\/04\/salmon-in-the-nest-box.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-33122\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/salmon-in-the-nest-box.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/salmon-in-the-nest-box-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/salmon-in-the-nest-box-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption>Salmon had been going in the nest box<\/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\/04\/salmon-settles-in-the-nest-box.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-33123\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/salmon-settles-in-the-nest-box.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/salmon-settles-in-the-nest-box-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/salmon-settles-in-the-nest-box-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption>A little later Salmon was settled in the nest box<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I waited with baited breath. A little later I heard the egg shout. I went to check and Salmon was vigorously scratching in the run which was a good sign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I checked the nest box and there was her, smaller than usual egg, with her signature blob of poop next to it.<\/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\/04\/salmons-tiny-egg-with-a-blob-of-poop-next-to-it.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-33125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/salmons-tiny-egg-with-a-blob-of-poop-next-to-it.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/salmons-tiny-egg-with-a-blob-of-poop-next-to-it-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/salmons-tiny-egg-with-a-blob-of-poop-next-to-it-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption>Salmon&#8217;s small egg next to a blob of poop<\/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\/04\/salmons-egg-in-the-middle-of-shadows-and-Smokes-egg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-33126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/salmons-egg-in-the-middle-of-shadows-and-Smokes-egg.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/salmons-egg-in-the-middle-of-shadows-and-Smokes-egg-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/salmons-egg-in-the-middle-of-shadows-and-Smokes-egg-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption>Salmon&#8217;s egg in the middle of Shadow&#8217;s and Smoke&#8217;s egg<br><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Shadow&#8217;s egg is on the left, Salmon&#8217;s egg is in the middle and Smoke&#8217;s egg is on the right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am so relieved that Salmon has got her egg laid without a problem. I am also glad she has started again with a small egg. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am hoping that her recent problem was just a blip and that she will be okay in the future. Only time will tell but for now I am so happy to see this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Salmon was looking in the nest boxes and I felt sure that she was getting ready to lay again. Flame had also been looking in the nest boxes for a couple of days and laid her first egg since &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=33106\">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\/33106"}],"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=33106"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33134,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33106\/revisions\/33134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}