{"id":13456,"date":"2018-07-22T11:29:04","date_gmt":"2018-07-22T15:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=13456"},"modified":"2018-07-26T16:24:55","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T20:24:55","slug":"setting-hens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=13456","title":{"rendered":"Setting hens"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/settin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1029\" src=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/settin.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/settin.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/settin-300x257.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/settin-768x659.jpg 768w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/settin-1024x878.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t happen all that often, but every now and then a hen takes a notion to set. This young lady is a year and a half old.<\/p>\n<p>There are a number of remedies for &#8220;breaking&#8221; hens of setting. Having tried it, I would testify that it&#8217;s not worth the fight. Broody hens are remarkably fierce and are not to be messed with. Eggs get broken in the fight. Plus, I figure that allowing the hens to live according to their instincts is part of the deal. She should get over it in another couple of weeks. I&#8217;ll throw the eggs away, but I can afford the eggs.<\/p>\n<p>There is no rooster here, so she is wasting her time. Not that she&#8217;s ever in a hurry about anything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It doesn&#8217;t happen all that often, but every now and then a hen takes a notion to set. This young lady is a year and a half old. There are a number of remedies for &#8220;breaking&#8221; hens of setting. Having tried it, I would testify that it&#8217;s not worth the fight. Broody hens are remarkably &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=13456\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Setting hens&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainable-living"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13456","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=13456"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13481,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13456\/revisions\/13481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}