{"id":9828,"date":"2017-03-11T14:14:21","date_gmt":"2017-03-11T18:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=9828"},"modified":"2017-03-11T14:14:21","modified_gmt":"2017-03-11T18:14:21","slug":"2017-spring-chickens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=9828","title":{"rendered":"2017 spring chickens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/C-chickens-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"713\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/C-chickens-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"  class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9829\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/C-chickens-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/C-chickens-1-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/C-chickens-1-768x548.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It has been three years since the abbey bought new chickens. The loss rate for our chickens is pretty good, but everybody loses chickens. For the past two or three years, hawks have been the biggest problem. The new spring chickens bring the abbey&#8217;s chicken population back up to eight.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/C-chickens-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"887\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/C-chickens-2.jpg\" alt=\"\"  class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9830\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/C-chickens-2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/C-chickens-2-300x266.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/C-chickens-2-768x681.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/C-chickens-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"684\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/C-chickens-3.jpg\" alt=\"\"  class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9831\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/C-chickens-3.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/C-chickens-3-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/C-chickens-3-768x525.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/C-chickens-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"894\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/C-chickens-4.jpg\" alt=\"\"  class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9832\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/C-chickens-4.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/C-chickens-4-300x268.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/C-chickens-4-768x687.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been three years since the abbey bought new chickens. The loss rate for our chickens is pretty good, but everybody loses chickens. For the past two or three years, hawks have been the biggest problem. The new spring chickens bring the abbey&#8217;s chicken population back up to eight.<\/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-9828","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\/9828","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=9828"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9835,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9828\/revisions\/9835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}