{"id":1267,"date":"2009-04-17T14:40:40","date_gmt":"2009-04-17T19:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1267"},"modified":"2009-04-17T14:40:40","modified_gmt":"2009-04-17T19:40:40","slug":"chicken-house-move-in-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1267","title":{"rendered":"Chicken house move-in day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/s-chickens-move-in-2009-04-17-1.JPG' title='s-chickens-move-in-2009-04-17-1.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/s-chickens-move-in-2009-04-17-1.JPG' alt='s-chickens-move-in-2009-04-17-1.JPG' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>The chickens pose for a picture shortly after moving into their new house, before they had a chance to dirty it up.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The chickens moved into their new house today. They&#8217;re now 12 days old. They&#8217;ve spent the last week living in a box upstairs in my unfinished house, where they got in the way of all the work that was going on this week. Now that they&#8217;re older and the weather is a bit warmer, I&#8217;ve moved them into their new chicken house. They still have their heat lamp for cold nights.<\/p>\n<p>My brother built the chicken house. We considered a number of designs for backyard chickenhouses, but we liked the house-on-stilts design the best. It affords some extra protection from predators and easier access for human caretakers. There&#8217;s a screen around the bottom, and a door in the floor of the chicken house. There will be ramp stairs between the two levels soon.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still thinking about security from predators. I may put a run of electric-fence wire around the base of the chicken house and have a timer turn it on from dusk until dawn.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/s-chickens-move-in-2009-04-17-2.JPG' title='s-chickens-move-in-2009-04-17-2.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/s-chickens-move-in-2009-04-17-2.JPG' alt='s-chickens-move-in-2009-04-17-2.JPG' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>The plywood panel in the front is temporary, covering the spot where the nests will be. The nests will extend out from the front of the chicken house, with egg-robbing doors on the outside.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chickens pose for a picture shortly after moving into their new house, before they had a chance to dirty it up. The chickens moved into their new house today. They&#8217;re now 12 days old. They&#8217;ve spent the last week living in a box upstairs in my unfinished house, where they got in the way &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1267\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chicken house move-in day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,15,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-sustainable-living","category-the-land"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}