{"id":235,"date":"2012-07-05T19:53:01","date_gmt":"2012-07-05T18:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelbrooke.com\/bockbockbock\/?p=235"},"modified":"2012-07-05T19:53:28","modified_gmt":"2012-07-05T18:53:28","slug":"pearl-vs-the-pros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelbrooke.com\/bockbockbock\/2012\/07\/05\/pearl-vs-the-pros\/","title":{"rendered":"Pearl versus the pros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Pearl may be the biggest and brawniest of our chickens, ruthlessly laying down the law with a beak of iron, she&#8217;s still only a mere beginner when it comes to egg-laying, as is graphically laid bare when two of her eggs are compared with shop-bought ones produced by highly trained professionals.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelbrooke.com\/bockbockbock\/2012\/07\/05\/pearl-vs-the-pros\/fridge\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-236\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-236\" title=\"Fridge\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.michaelbrooke.com\/bockbockbock\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fridge.jpg?resize=640%2C480\" alt=\"Pearl's eggs surrounded by shop-bought ones in the fridge\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.michaelbrooke.com\/bockbockbock\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fridge.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.michaelbrooke.com\/bockbockbock\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fridge.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.michaelbrooke.com\/bockbockbock\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fridge.jpg?w=2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.michaelbrooke.com\/bockbockbock\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fridge.jpg?w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.michaelbrooke.com\/bockbockbock\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fridge.jpg?w=1920 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Still, it&#8217;s a start, and considering that it was less than a week ago that she produced her first one, she&#8217;s not doing too badly.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, after discovering that WordPress has a plugin that will generate graphs automatically, I&#8217;ve started a permanent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelbrooke.com\/bockbockbock\/egg-production\/\">egg production page<\/a>, which will be updated every time I find more data sources in one of the nesting bays.\u00a0 Pearl and Queenie&#8217;s eggs will probably be indistinguishable (they&#8217;re the same breed), but Vi and Ida&#8217;s should look distinctive enough to be able to be plotted separately, at least when they get around to producing any.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Pearl may be the biggest and brawniest of our chickens, ruthlessly laying down the law with a beak of iron, she&#8217;s still only a mere beginner when it comes to egg-laying, as is graphically laid bare when two of &hellip; 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