{"id":39666,"date":"2025-03-19T14:38:48","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T14:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=39666"},"modified":"2025-03-19T14:38:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T14:38:48","slug":"clouds-first-egg-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=39666","title":{"rendered":"Cloud&#8217;s first egg of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I missed getting a photo of Cloud in the nest box. She was going in and out of the nest box by the gate but by the time I grabbed my camera she was back out. I then went indoors for lunch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After lunch I went back out with my camera. There was a warm egg in the nest box by the gate and Cloud was at the water with a bit of pine shaving on her back.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mango and Cloud seem to do every thing in unison so I had been expecting Cloud to lay soon after Mango.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/cloud-at-the-water.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/cloud-at-the-water.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-39678\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/cloud-at-the-water.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/cloud-at-the-water-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/cloud-at-the-water-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Cloud at the water with a little bit of pine shaving on her back<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/mango-and-clouds-eggs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/mango-and-clouds-eggs.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-39679\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/mango-and-clouds-eggs.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/mango-and-clouds-eggs-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/mango-and-clouds-eggs-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Mango&#8217;s egg on the right and Cloud&#8217;s egg on the left<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Their eggs are very similar with Cloud&#8217;s egg just a little longer and more pointed than Mango&#8217;s. Well done Cloud!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I missed getting a photo of Cloud in the nest box. She was going in and out of the nest box by the gate but by the time I grabbed my camera she was back out. I then went indoors &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=39666\">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\/39666"}],"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=39666"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39682,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39666\/revisions\/39682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}