{"id":8998,"date":"2014-08-21T09:42:04","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T09:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=8998"},"modified":"2014-08-21T09:42:04","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T09:42:04","slug":"coming-through-the-moult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=8998","title":{"rendered":"Coming through the moult"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emerald and Toffee have been moulting for five weeks now. There has been a constant stream of feathers to pick up each morning but finally they are slowing down. They both lost their tails two weeks ago but their new tail feathers have now grown back in. They are both looking pretty good now.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9010\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/toffee.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9010\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9010\" alt=\"toffee is looking good after her moult\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/toffee.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9010\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Toffee is looking good after her moult<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_9011\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/toffee_has_her_tail_back.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9011\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9011\" alt=\"Toffee has her tail back\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/toffee_has_her_tail_back.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9011\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Toffee has her tail back<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_9012\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/emerald_has_her-tail_back.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9012\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9012\" alt=\"Emerald also has her tail back\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/emerald_has_her-tail_back.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9012\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emerald also has her tail back<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_9013\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/emerald_shows_off_her_long_neck.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9013\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9013\" alt=\"Emerald shows off her long neck\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/emerald_shows_off_her_long_neck.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9013\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emerald shows off her long neck<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I love how these two game birds have such a long neck when they stretch yet it completely disappears when they are relaxed. We wondered if that&#8217;s where the expression &#8220;wind your neck in&#8221; comes from.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the first two through the moult, only four more adults to go and the two chicks to get all their grown up feathers in and then we are done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emerald and Toffee have been moulting for five weeks now. There has been a constant stream of feathers to pick up each morning but finally they are slowing down. 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