{"id":37811,"date":"2023-11-09T16:11:27","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T16:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=37811"},"modified":"2023-11-09T16:11:27","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T16:11:27","slug":"sugar-has-lost-her-tail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=37811","title":{"rendered":"Sugar has lost her tail"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This morning Sugar&#8217;s last two tail feathers were under her roost spot in the chicken shed. Overnight she has lost her tail. Oddly enough Dot&#8217;s last remaining tail feather is still hanging on. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/sugar-has-lost-her-tail.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/sugar-has-lost-her-tail.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-37821\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/sugar-has-lost-her-tail.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/sugar-has-lost-her-tail-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/sugar-has-lost-her-tail-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Sugar has lost her tail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/salmon-next-to-sugar-for-tail-comparison.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/salmon-next-to-sugar-for-tail-comparison.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-37822\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/salmon-next-to-sugar-for-tail-comparison.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/salmon-next-to-sugar-for-tail-comparison-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/salmon-next-to-sugar-for-tail-comparison-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Salmon next to Sugar for a tail comparison<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sugar looks quite sweet with her short tail. It will soon grow back to it&#8217;s usual length. Apart from Autumn all the girls&#8217; combs have now turned their pale winter colour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Autumn&#8217;s comb is bright red and she has gone from laying every other day to laying two days running some of the time. Autumn is keeping us going with those bonus winter eggs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It will be good to see the rest of the girls through the moult. It seems to have dragged on this year.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning Sugar&#8217;s last two tail feathers were under her roost spot in the chicken shed. Overnight she has lost her tail. Oddly enough Dot&#8217;s last remaining tail feather is still hanging on. Sugar looks quite sweet with her short &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=37811\">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\/37811"}],"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=37811"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37824,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37811\/revisions\/37824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}