{"id":41206,"date":"2025-12-08T14:21:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T14:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=41206"},"modified":"2025-12-08T14:21:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T14:21:00","slug":"silver-in-the-squat-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=41206","title":{"rendered":"Silver in the squat position"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Silver drops into a squat whenever I come up behind her and especially if I lightly touch her back. It&#8217;s been difficult to show in a photograph though because she is very low to the ground anyway, but you can see by the shape of her wings that she is squatting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/silver-in-squat-position.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/silver-in-squat-position.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/silver-in-squat-position.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/silver-in-squat-position-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/silver-in-squat-position-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Silver in the squat position<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I have also seen Ginger go to the grit. Neither girl is showing an interest in the nest boxes as yet but I feel sure these two will start laying quite early.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silver drops into a squat whenever I come up behind her and especially if I lightly touch her back. It&#8217;s been difficult to show in a photograph though because she is very low to the ground anyway, but you can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=41206\">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\/41206"}],"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=41206"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41225,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41206\/revisions\/41225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}