{"id":8985,"date":"2014-08-19T14:32:37","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T14:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=8985"},"modified":"2014-08-19T14:32:37","modified_gmt":"2014-08-19T14:32:37","slug":"topaz-has-a-dust-bath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=8985","title":{"rendered":"Topaz has a dust bath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today when I got Topaz out at lunch time she went off in an angry whirl chasing the other girls away. She pecked furiously at some apple, ate some sunflower hearts and pooped. She scratched for a few minutes as usual. She came back to the locked coop and protested but then she took herself off for a dust bath.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8999\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/topaz_having_a-dust_bath.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8999\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8999\" alt=\"Topaz having a dust bath\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/topaz_having_a-dust_bath.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8999\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Topaz having a dust bath<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This is the first time Topaz has had a dust bath since she has gone broody and I was really pleased to see this. After a few minutes she came up to the patio area, shook herself off and marched back to the little coop nest box.<\/p>\n<p>While she was in her dust bath I topped up the shavings in her nest box and sprinkled in some D.E. It was so lovely to see her in the dust bath even though it was quite brief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today when I got Topaz out at lunch time she went off in an angry whirl chasing the other girls away. She pecked furiously at some apple, ate some sunflower hearts and pooped. She scratched for a few minutes as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=8985\">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\/8985"}],"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=8985"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9004,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8985\/revisions\/9004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}