{"id":2150,"date":"2013-05-06T16:53:27","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T08:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=2150"},"modified":"2013-05-06T18:58:17","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T10:58:17","slug":"pecked-and-picked-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/06\/pecked-and-picked-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Pecked and Picked on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130506-012.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2146\" alt=\"20130506 012\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130506-012-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130506-012-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130506-012.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Billie got attacked by crows <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/05\/tough-love\/\">again this morning<\/a> then pecked at by the rest of the flock until she hid in some long grass. \u00a0She did look like a sad and bedraggled little creature, especially when I saw her walking up the paddock on her own in the middle of the day. \u00a0I was relieved to see her back with the flock later in the afternoon. \u00a0I hope she soon learns to fly from danger rather than hunkering down, but it is probably another 5-6 weeks until then. \u00a0The Young Ones were about\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/07\/and-we-have-lift-off\/\">16 weeks old<\/a> when they looked like strong flyers. \u00a0 \u00a0It was a bit of a gamble letting Bill and Ben out so young, but I still think they were more likely to be accepted as young birds &#8211; and the flock has been <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/01\/teaching-her-to-fly\/\">teaching her<\/a>, although sometimes the <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/05\/tough-love\/\">lessons seem a bit harsh<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billie got attacked by crows again this morning then pecked at by the rest of the flock until [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2146,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guinea-fowl","category-not-so-wildlife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130506-012.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2150"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2152,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150\/revisions\/2152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}