{"id":1405,"date":"2009-08-05T11:08:13","date_gmt":"2009-08-05T16:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1405"},"modified":"2009-08-05T11:08:13","modified_gmt":"2009-08-05T16:08:13","slug":"chicken-treats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1405","title":{"rendered":"Chicken treats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/s-chicken-treats-2009-08-05-2.JPG\" title=\"s-chicken-treats-2009-08-05-2.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/s-chicken-treats-2009-08-05-2.JPG\" alt=\"s-chicken-treats-2009-08-05-2.JPG\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>A plate of chicken treats<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If one eats well of the summer produce, then one&#8217;s backyard chickens can eat well too. Their favorites are corn and watermelon. They like squash well enough after they&#8217;ve eaten all the corn and watermelon. They go crazy over nice, ripe tomatoes. They can put away a ton of peach peels. To try to keep the fruit flies down, I keep raw fruit and vegetable scraps in a bowl in the refrigerator until I take them to the chickens.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite produce stand at Germanton has been saving produce for me that&#8217;s too rough to sell but good enough for chickens.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/s-chicken-treats-2009-08-05-3.JPG\" title=\"s-chicken-treats-2009-08-05-3.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/s-chicken-treats-2009-08-05-3.JPG\" alt=\"s-chicken-treats-2009-08-05-3.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A plate of chicken treats If one eats well of the summer produce, then one&#8217;s backyard chickens can eat well too. Their favorites are corn and watermelon. They like squash well enough after they&#8217;ve eaten all the corn and watermelon. They go crazy over nice, ripe tomatoes. They can put away a ton of peach &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1405\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chicken treats&#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":[4,9,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-relocalization","category-sustainable-living"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405","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=1405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}