{"id":3126,"date":"2020-04-03T20:27:46","date_gmt":"2020-04-04T00:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.springfieldfarm.org\/?p=3126"},"modified":"2020-05-18T09:58:06","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T13:58:06","slug":"chicks-are-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.springfieldfarm.org\/?p=3126","title":{"rendered":"Chicks are Here!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Given the uncertainty of the pandemic situation we decided to take the plunge and get some laying hens.  We purchased 10 White Leghorns and 10 Brown ISA pullets.  I&#8217;m going to build a large chicken tractor to move about the year allowing the hens to feed on fresh grass and insects around the property.  Will be posting as that progresses.  Here are the chicks in the box from Tractor Supply and in the brooder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"New Chicks Coming Home\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tQ_YPyUBKk0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" src=\"http:\/\/www.springfieldfarm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_4372.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3124\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given the uncertainty of the pandemic situation we decided to take the plunge and get some laying hens. We purchased 10 White Leghorns and 10 Brown ISA pullets. I&#8217;m going to build a large chicken tractor to move about the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.springfieldfarm.org\/?p=3126\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.springfieldfarm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.springfieldfarm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.springfieldfarm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.springfieldfarm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.springfieldfarm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3126"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.springfieldfarm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3128,"href":"https:\/\/www.springfieldfarm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3126\/revisions\/3128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.springfieldfarm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.springfieldfarm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.springfieldfarm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}