{"id":9526,"date":"2014-10-31T07:27:01","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T07:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=9526"},"modified":"2014-10-31T07:27:01","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T07:27:01","slug":"jackies-flock-are-moulting-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=9526","title":{"rendered":"Jackie’s flock are moulting too"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I visited Jackie’s flock then bought her to mine to visit my flock. As we had a quiet afternoon my husband came to see Jackie’s flock too and catch up with Bluebell now Blossom.<\/p>\n

Blossom didn’t moult apart from the odd tail feather when she was with us last winter (her first winter). Because of this she always looked a bit ragged. I think that after a proper moult this winter she will be back to looking pristine again.<\/p>\n

Jackie had said that her head girl Clover was the one moulting the most and had lots of pin feathers coming through.<\/p>\n

\"Clover<\/a>

Clover is moulting<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Blossom<\/a>

Blossom has lost some tail feathers<\/p><\/div>\n

\"All<\/a>

All four of Jackie’s girls<\/p><\/div>\n

Blossom is on the left, Bluebell next, then Clover then Bonnie on the right. It is Bluebell’s first winter so she isn’t moulting.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>

A tatty looking Blossom<\/p><\/div>\n

All of us chicken keepers are going through this at the moment at one stage or another but soon all our girls will look pristine and beautiful again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I visited Jackie’s flock then bought her to mine to visit my flock. As we had a quiet afternoon my husband came to see Jackie’s flock too and catch up with Bluebell now Blossom. Blossom didn’t moult apart from … Continue reading →<\/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\/9526"}],"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=9526"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9546,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9526\/revisions\/9546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}