{"id":3331,"date":"2013-03-18T18:45:57","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T18:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=3331"},"modified":"2013-03-18T18:45:57","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T18:45:57","slug":"dust-bath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=3331","title":{"rendered":"Dust bath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon when I went up to see the girls, Pepper and Dotty came running to greet me but there was no sign of Bluebell. I knew she wouldn&#8217;t be in the coop because she had already laid her egg earlier.<\/p>\n<p>I went to investigate and found her having a lovely time in the dust bath. If you have never seen a chicken having a dust bath you would be forgiven for thinking there was something wrong with them. They close their eyes and twist and writhe around. Suddenly Bluebell opens her eyes and casually looks up at me.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3347\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/bluebell_having_a_lovely_dust-bath.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3347\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3347\" alt=\"Bluebell having a lovely dust bath\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/bluebell_having_a_lovely_dust-bath.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/bluebell_having_a_lovely_dust-bath.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/bluebell_having_a_lovely_dust-bath-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3347\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bluebell having a lovely dust bath<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_3349\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/being_watched.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3349\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3349\" alt=\"Being watched\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/being_watched.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/being_watched.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/being_watched-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3349\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Being watched<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I love the way the other girls go over to see what is going on. A chicken and her flock members are never far from each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon when I went up to see the girls, Pepper and Dotty came running to greet me but there was no sign of Bluebell. I knew she wouldn&#8217;t be in the coop because she had already laid her egg &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=3331\">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\/3331"}],"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=3331"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3361,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3331\/revisions\/3361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}