{"id":1533,"date":"2009-04-17T20:01:40","date_gmt":"2009-04-18T02:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.JFanjoy.com\/blog\/?p=1533"},"modified":"2009-04-17T21:33:18","modified_gmt":"2009-04-18T03:33:18","slug":"the-chickens-came-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/the-chickens-came-home\/","title":{"rendered":"The chickens came home!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.JFanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/loner4.jpg\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" width=\"144\" height=\"200\" alt=\"loner.jpg\" class=\"main_img_left\" \/>Great news! We&#8217;ve had our first success with chickens. Since all the neighborhood chickens are free-range, we had to take steps against our new chickens deciding to join a diffferent flock. Following our neighbors&#8217; advice, during the day we tied our chickens to a stake near their coop with a 20&#8242; string around their leg. At night, we locked them in the coop with some food and water. The idea is that after a week, the chickens forget that they ever lived anywhere else. Today was the big test: in the morning, I opend the coop door and watched them streak out of there and disappear into the horizon. I felt kindof like I&#8217;d been tricked. This evening, Emily and I waited patiently for their return. OK, that&#8217;s a lie. I harrassed Emily to go find them, and Lina told her that it was pointless and we just had to wait.<\/p>\n<p>We then were invited to dinner, and didn&#8217;t notice the passing of day into night. When we got back home, Emily sent me down to the coop with a flashlight, and Lo and Behold! there were the chickens, looking kindof nervous that a predator such as myself might be eyeing them so closely. I closed their little door, and returned to our house. We now officially have Free Range Chickens. Yay! Now we just have to wait for some eggs to appear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great news! We&#8217;ve had our first success with chickens. Since all the neighborhood chickens are free-range, we had to take steps against our new chickens deciding to join a diffferent flock. Following our neighbors&#8217; advice, during the day we tied our chickens to a stake near their coop with a 20&#8242; string around their leg. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jims-guatemala"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1533"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1541,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533\/revisions\/1541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfanjoy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}