{"id":4709,"date":"2013-09-13T15:45:57","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T07:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=4709"},"modified":"2013-09-16T19:16:48","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T11:16:48","slug":"first-guinea-fowl-egg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/13\/first-guinea-fowl-egg\/","title":{"rendered":"First Guinea Fowl Egg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130915-041.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4657\" alt=\"20130915 041\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130915-041-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130915-041-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130915-041.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The Guineas are feeling fresh and are either chasing each round the property or hiding their nests in the oats. \u00a0I found an egg on the gravel in the tractor bay, so someone obviously got caught short. \u00a0We want to <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/06\/last-look-before-lockdown\/\">incubate<\/a>\u00a0and hatch more <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/category\/not-so-wildlife\/guinea-fowl\/\">guineas<\/a>\u00a0this year to build numbers back up to 20, but don&#8217;t want to start until October. \u00a0Last year we chopped the head off a <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/10\/went-to-mow-a-guinea-fowl\/\">nesting guinea<\/a> when mowing the hay, so we hatched the eggs that we saved from that nest. \u00a0Judging by the rustling and movement in the hay, some of the others have decided it is the best place to be, so I will have to walk in front of the mower this year. \u00a0 If we find any nests before mid October, we will just give the eggs to Shorty. \u00a0She is normally <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/08\/guinea-fowl-eggs\/\">quite good at finding them<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guineas are feeling fresh and are either chasing each round the property or hiding their nests in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4657,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4709","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\/09\/20130915-041.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4709","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=4709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4710,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4709\/revisions\/4710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}