{"id":42312,"date":"2026-10-04T15:30:03","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T15:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=42312"},"modified":"2026-10-04T15:30:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T15:30:03","slug":"maples-moult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=42312","title":{"rendered":"Maple&#8217;s moult"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have fallen a bit behind with blogging but there hasn&#8217;t really been much to tell. Popcorn looked really scruffy for a while and was dropping feathers but she now looks pretty much back to normal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maple seemed to have a pretty full moult for a first year girl. She had very ragged tail feathers which have dropped and she had new tail feathers come in under them. She didn&#8217;t really look much different until suddenly the back of her neck is white with pin feathers. She never had a bare neck so the pins must have been there once the neck feathers dropped away. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/maple-with-pins-on-the-back-of-her-neck.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/maple-with-pins-on-the-back-of-her-neck.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/maple-with-pins-on-the-back-of-her-neck.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/maple-with-pins-on-the-back-of-her-neck-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/maple-with-pins-on-the-back-of-her-neck-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Maple with white pins on the back of her neck<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/popcorn-and-maple.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/popcorn-and-maple.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/popcorn-and-maple.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/popcorn-and-maple-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/popcorn-and-maple-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Popcorn and Maple<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In other news, much to my surprise, Red took a week&#8217;s break from egg laying and then started again. She has now laid seven eggs in two weeks. This is a month later than last year. This is a bonus, well done Red!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have fallen a bit behind with blogging but there hasn&#8217;t really been much to tell. Popcorn looked really scruffy for a while and was dropping feathers but she now looks pretty much back to normal. Maple seemed to have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=42312\">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\/42312"}],"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=42312"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42322,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42312\/revisions\/42322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}