{"id":38372,"date":"2024-05-19T13:52:28","date_gmt":"2024-05-19T13:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=38372"},"modified":"2024-05-19T17:12:29","modified_gmt":"2024-05-19T17:12:29","slug":"the-conundrum-that-is-sugar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=38372","title":{"rendered":"The conundrum that is Sugar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sugar has now laid four good eggs, laying every other day. Her eggs are very small, smaller than the game girls’ eggs. We still absolutely know that she is not right though and she seems worse for laying again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sugar has a lovely red comb. Twenty percent of the time she appears perfectly normal. She runs to the treats, she dust baths, she stretches out in the sun and she preens. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the other eighty percent of the time she sits in the run which is not normal for a chicken. Before she lays her posture is like this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sugar sits with her wings held out<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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She has a humped back shape<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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After laying her last egg she was sitting with her head under her wing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Next time I checked on her she was up and about again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The twenty percent of the time that she looks normal I think we must just and wait and see how she goes on. The eighty percent of the time that she sits, even when her posture isn’t as bad as at the moment, I worry about her quality of life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We just have no clue what to do about her and keep coming back to feeling we must just wait and see. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edit<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

About an hour after I had put this post out Sugar got her fifth egg laid the day after her fourth egg. It is super tiny like some of her eggs at the beginning of last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sugar’s three most recent eggs with today’s egg on the left<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Today’s egg is tiny<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Next to a pound coin for size comparison<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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It appears to have a yolk but it’s the same colour as the white<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This is just adding to the mystery of Sugar. There is definitely something adrift with her. We have never come across this before. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sugar has now laid four good eggs, laying every other day. Her eggs are very small, smaller than the game girls’ eggs. We still absolutely know that she is not right though and she seems worse for laying again. Sugar … Continue reading →<\/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\/38372"}],"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=38372"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38430,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38372\/revisions\/38430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}