{"id":1017,"date":"2017-07-20T20:56:38","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T03:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/muddyvalleyfarm.com\/?p=1017"},"modified":"2017-07-20T20:56:38","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T03:56:38","slug":"all-the-sweet-young-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/?p=1017","title":{"rendered":"All the Tender Young Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1025\" src=\"https:\/\/muddyvalleyfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/img_6171.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6171.JPG\" width=\"738\" height=\"756\" \/>David Cassidy is in his element these days, with all his spring chickens getting close to point of lay and ready for some loving.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>Its easy to tell who is &#8220;doing it&#8221; and who isn&#8217;t, laying eggs that is. Just before she lays her first egg, a pullet&#8217;s comb gets bigger and redder. Check out the comb difference in the two Swedish Flower pullets above. One is three weeks older than the other, and laying.<\/p>\n<p>Ahhhh those young, flirty, carefree days. You don&#8217;t know it gals, but you&#8217;re in the springtime of your lives&#8230;better enjoy it!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1035\" src=\"https:\/\/muddyvalleyfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/img_6170.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6170.JPG\" width=\"1034\" height=\"822\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Cassidy is in his element these days, with all<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chickens","category-farm-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}