{"id":2227,"date":"2014-02-11T14:08:01","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T20:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?p=2227"},"modified":"2014-02-11T14:08:01","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T20:08:01","slug":"they-are-so-darn-cute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?p=2227","title":{"rendered":"They Are So Darn Cute!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The baby chickens are up their cute and adorable ways again.<\/p>\n<p>I have been trying for some time now to get them to eat from my hand. \u00a0Being chickens, they are too chicken to try.<\/p>\n<p>I do not think it is a matter of trust. \u00a0Whenever I come into the back room, they come running up to greet me, &#8220;Cheep, Cheep, Cheep.&#8221; \u00a0&#8220;Peep, Peep, Peep!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They are just chicken.<\/p>\n<p>I never realized the full extent to calling somebody chicken before. \u00a0The name fits the bill. \u00a0I think the only thing more chicken than a chicken is, well, my dog, Paxton.<\/p>\n<p>Paxton, for all of his bluster, is a chicken. \u00a0Paxton can and does strike fear in the hearts of those who do not know him. \u00a0He is intimidating. \u00a0He can rip, snarl, tear like the big dog he is~BUT~if you rip, snarl, tear right back at him? \u00a0Well, he will run and hide with the best of them.<\/p>\n<p>Back to the chickens.<\/p>\n<p>Today, finally, they ate from my hands. \u00a0I was able to literally hand feed my baby chickens. \u00a0They were not tentative in the least. \u00a0They dove right in! \u00a0I had a treat for them today~Scratch Grain.<\/p>\n<p>Ah, scratch grain. \u00a0The chocolate chip cookiedum of chickenhood. \u00a0Yup. \u00a0That did the trick!<\/p>\n<p>They are so Darn Cute!!!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?attachment_id=2228\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2228\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2228\" alt=\"IMG_20140122_141635_695\" src=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_20140122_141635_695.jpg\" width=\"3264\" height=\"1836\" srcset=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_20140122_141635_695.jpg 3264w, http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_20140122_141635_695-300x168.jpg 300w, http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_20140122_141635_695-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_20140122_141635_695-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3264px) 100vw, 3264px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The baby chickens are up their cute and adorable ways again. I have been trying for some time now to get them to eat from my hand. \u00a0Being chickens, they are too chicken to try. I do not think it is a matter of trust. \u00a0Whenever I come into the back room, they come running [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,6,8,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2229,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227\/revisions\/2229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}