{"id":9098,"date":"2014-08-30T10:53:39","date_gmt":"2014-08-30T10:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=9098"},"modified":"2014-08-30T10:53:39","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T10:53:39","slug":"my-chicks-are-almost-completely-grown-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=9098","title":{"rendered":"My chicks are almost completely grown up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We got Peaches and Barley at six weeks old and they are now fifteen weeks old. They have changed so much that I had to look back at them as chicks to remind myself how they looked then. I took the photo below when we had had them a week.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9113\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/peaches_and_barley_when_chicks1.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9113\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9113\" alt=\"Peaches and Barley at seven weeks old\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/peaches_and_barley_when_chicks1.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9113\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peaches and Barley at seven weeks old<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_9114\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/they_are_so_alike1.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9114\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9114\" alt=\"Peaches and Barley at fifteen weeks old\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/they_are_so_alike1.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9114\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peaches and Barley at fifteen weeks old<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I always consider that they are truly fully grown up once they start to lay eggs but in appearance I think these two are pretty grown up now.<\/p>\n<p>I was expecting their combs to flop over but I have been looking at photos of bantam brown leghorns and some have a floppy comb and some have an upright comb. I think we will just have to wait and see. I love their spiky combs and would be quite happy to see them stay upright. They will be beautiful either way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We got Peaches and Barley at six weeks old and they are now fifteen weeks old. They have changed so much that I had to look back at them as chicks to remind myself how they looked then. I took &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=9098\">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\/9098"}],"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=9098"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9116,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9098\/revisions\/9116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}