{"id":33930,"date":"2021-11-05T14:11:02","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T14:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=33930"},"modified":"2021-11-05T14:12:08","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T14:12:08","slug":"flame-has-lost-her-tail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=33930","title":{"rendered":"Flame has lost her tail"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Flame seems to be having a moult in two halves. I am putting it down to Flame having a couple of broody spells late in the summer which kick started her moult.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In September she stopped laying and started dropping loads of feathers. Flame didn&#8217;t look as bad as she had some years despite feathers wafting from her with every movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Flame had a short tail rather than no tail as she usually had and I put this down to the long tail feathers dropping out and revealing the new shorter tail feathers growing in underneath.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However Flame is dropping feathers again and has now dropped her tail feathers leaving her with next to no tail. She has one short tail feather remaining.<\/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\/11\/flame-has-only-one-tail-feather.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-33944\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/flame-has-only-one-tail-feather.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/flame-has-only-one-tail-feather-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/flame-has-only-one-tail-feather-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption>Flame has only one tail feather<\/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\/11\/flames-tail-feather-from-the-other-side.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-33945\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/flames-tail-feather-from-the-other-side.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/flames-tail-feather-from-the-other-side-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/flames-tail-feather-from-the-other-side-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption>Flame&#8217;s tail feather from the other side<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The good thing about Flame having her moult in two halves is that she doesn&#8217;t look any thing like as tatty as she has in the past when having one heavy moult.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apart from Flame&#8217;s lack of tail she is looking pretty good. It won&#8217;t be long before Flame&#8217;s tail feathers grow back in and she will be back to her beautiful self again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flame seems to be having a moult in two halves. I am putting it down to Flame having a couple of broody spells late in the summer which kick started her moult. In September she stopped laying and started dropping &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=33930\">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\/33930"}],"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=33930"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33950,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33930\/revisions\/33950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}