{"id":601,"date":"2012-09-14T19:42:57","date_gmt":"2012-09-14T19:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?p=601"},"modified":"2012-09-14T19:42:57","modified_gmt":"2012-09-14T19:42:57","slug":"chickens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?p=601","title":{"rendered":"Chickens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Run: \u00a03.56 miles (Watson Rd)<\/p>\n<p>I am interested in getting chickens. \u00a0Not roosters but hens. \u00a0For the eggs. \u00a0And because I want some chickens. \u00a0It seems a shame that we live in the country and do not have any chickens. \u00a0It is not like I want a goat, or a pig or anything, just a few hens would suffice.<\/p>\n<p>Because I am interested in chickens, I have been doing a little reading online about having them and housing them. \u00a0I think the way I want to go is with a chicken tractor. \u00a0This is very similar to a coop except that it has no bottom, is portable and your chickens can &#8220;scratch&#8221;, eat insects, grass, table scraps, etc.<\/p>\n<p>In my research on chickens I have run across some interesting things. \u00a0There are a great\u00a0variety of chickens. \u00a0You can have &#8220;mixed breed&#8221; chickens aka: mutts\u00a0and of course your real chickens (not to be confused with rubber chickens).<\/p>\n<p>(As a side note: \u00a0I entered a rubber chicken throwing contest at the Iowa State Fair this Summer~received a yellow participation ribbon!)<\/p>\n<p>By far, the most unusual thing I found on the internet pertaining to chickens is, well, rather\u00a0embarrassing. \u00a0At least I would hope the person who made this video is embarrassed: \u00a0The Yodeling Chicken Herder&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yO7MWuJ7zLA\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Run: \u00a03.56 miles (Watson Rd) I am interested in getting chickens. \u00a0Not roosters but hens. \u00a0For the eggs. \u00a0And because I want some chickens. \u00a0It seems a shame that we live in the country and do not have any chickens. \u00a0It is not like I want a goat, or a pig or anything, just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601"}],"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=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":604,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions\/604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}