{"id":5960,"date":"2014-03-09T19:12:13","date_gmt":"2014-03-09T23:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=5960"},"modified":"2014-03-10T03:50:44","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T07:50:44","slug":"new-gate-for-the-new-chicken-lot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=5960","title":{"rendered":"New gate for the new chicken lot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/A-new-gate-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"870\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/A-new-gate-1.jpg\" alt=\"A-new-gate-1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5961\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/A-new-gate-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/A-new-gate-1-300x261.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As of sunset today, the chickens&#8217; new habitat is ready. They now have three grazing and scratching areas, each separated by gates: the garden, the orchard, and a section of woods. Six chickens can do a great deal of damage to grass, and we want the strongest possible turf in the orchard. When it became apparent by mid-winter that the turf in the orchard was not going to be able to withstand a full winter of scratching, we moved the chickens into the garden to protect the orchard turf. The chickens soon wiped out the winter rye that had been planted as a cover crop for the garden and made a big mess. But at least, in the garden, no permanent harm was done.<\/p>\n<p>Ken made the decision to extend their scratching area into the woods. That will give the chickens a great deal more space and relieve the pressure on the orchard turf. It also will provide a cool, shady area for the girls to hang out during the heat of summer. It also will make it easier to justify two or three new hens this spring.<\/p>\n<p>This project cost several hundred dollars and a lot of time, but after we saw eggs for more than $10 a dozen at Whole Foods, we had no doubt that it was worth it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/B-new-gate-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"801\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/B-new-gate-2.jpg\" alt=\"B-new-gate-2\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5962\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/B-new-gate-2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/B-new-gate-2-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>The girls in the garden \u2014 now a muddy mess after lots of rain and snow and scratching<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of sunset today, the chickens&#8217; new habitat is ready. They now have three grazing and scratching areas, each separated by gates: the garden, the orchard, and a section of woods. Six chickens can do a great deal of damage to grass, and we want the strongest possible turf in the orchard. When it became &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=5960\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New gate for the new chicken lot&#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":[15,18],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-5960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainable-living","category-the-land","tag-ken-ilgunas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5960","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=5960"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5970,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5960\/revisions\/5970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}