{"id":2245,"date":"2013-05-12T19:17:24","date_gmt":"2013-05-12T11:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=2245"},"modified":"2013-05-14T11:39:09","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T03:39:09","slug":"bye-bye-billie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/12\/bye-bye-billie\/","title":{"rendered":"Bye Bye Billie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130513-027.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2224\" alt=\"20130513 027\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130513-027-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130513-027-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130513-027.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>We realised during the day that <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/17\/baby-birds-4-weeks-old\/\">Billie<\/a>\u00a0wasn&#8217;t with the flock. \u00a0Shorty had chased off a fox yesterday morning and the birds all clamoured when an eagle flew over earlier this morning. \u00a0We don&#8217;t know for sure what happened, but my money is on the fox. \u00a0Her <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/09\/billies-bodyguard\/\">bodyguard<\/a>\u00a0still seems to be looking for her. \u00a0Poor Billie only lasted 10 days longer than <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/01\/lone-ranger\/\">Benita<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The main lessons learned are to only incubate eggs in October\/November as these are more <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/14\/lock-down-at-day-25\/\">likely to be fertile<\/a>\u00a0so we will\u00a0give any eggs found in December\/January to the dog,\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/22\/more-babies\/\"> incubate about 15<\/a> which should give 7-10 survivors and keep them in a cage till at least 12 weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We realised during the day that Billie\u00a0wasn&#8217;t with the flock. \u00a0Shorty had chased off a fox yesterday morning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2224,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[11,10],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130513-027.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245"}],"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=2245"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2271,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245\/revisions\/2271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}