{"id":2403,"date":"2018-06-20T23:11:21","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T06:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/muddyvalleyfarm.com\/?p=2403"},"modified":"2018-06-20T23:11:21","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T06:11:21","slug":"chickens-4-dayz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/?p=2403","title":{"rendered":"Chickens 4 Dayz…"},"content":{"rendered":"

So many broody hens in our muddy valley, and two more ladies declared their intentions today, veteran Alsty and newbie Welsummer.<\/p>\n

A full quarter of our year round chicken population is engaged in procreation right now. That makes it tough for our egg customers, broody hens stop laying. We have:<\/p>\n

– Four Silkie hens raising chicks – White Silkie 1 and White Silkie 2 who each have a brood, and Brown and Black Silkies\u00a0 <\/span>co-mothering their second batch this year,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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– A Swedish Flower raising her lone chick in the coop with the flock. (That one was a complete shock, I lifted her up one day and a chick fell out of her feather petticoat),\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

– A Marans in the barn setting on eggs,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

– Another Marans who has just finished raising babies and gone back to her flock,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

– Sparkles the Auracana, who has just done likewise,<\/p>\n

– Brownie the chocolate Cochin, almost finished raising her first brood of the year.<\/p>\n

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– A Silver Sussex in the laying coop, about to hatch a passel of Legbars, and\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

– A Barred Rock in a broody box, deep in her setting trance. I prod her each day to make sure she is still with us, and she growls in return. Broodies get so grouchy.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s eleven, plus these two new ones makes a baker\u2019s dozen.<\/p>\n

Where the heck am I going to put Alsty and Welsummer? Is it time for some chicken infrastructure updates? Uh oh, maybe…stay tuned!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So many broody hens in our muddy valley, and two<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,21,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chickens","category-farm-life","category-seasons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2403","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=2403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}