{"id":1931,"date":"2017-10-13T21:59:45","date_gmt":"2017-10-14T04:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/muddyvalleyfarm.com\/?p=1931"},"modified":"2017-10-13T21:59:45","modified_gmt":"2017-10-14T04:59:45","slug":"birds-of-a-feather-flocking-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/?p=1931","title":{"rendered":"Birds of a Feather, Flocking Together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love a colourful flock, so when I began my crazy chicken lady career, I bought one or two chicks, three at the most, of every breed I could get my hands on. Watching them grow up, and observing flock dynamics, has convinced me of the truth of that old saying about birds of a feather flocking together, they really do!<\/p>\n<p>Chickens love to hang out with others that look like they do. But here&#8217;s the thing&#8230;<em>how do chickens know what they look like?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1963\" src=\"https:\/\/muddyvalleyfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/img_6098.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6098.JPG\" width=\"1465\" height=\"1114\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It seems to me that chickens must be self-aware. They\u00a0know where they stop and the world begins, they recognize their own feather colours and patterns, and they seek out others that look like they do. Fascinating, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>All my chickens greatly prefer the company of their own breeds. In fact, I now avoid keeping a chicken without keeping at least one buddy of the same colour.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love a colourful flock, so when I began my<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chickens","category-farm-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}