{"id":770,"date":"2017-06-24T21:32:06","date_gmt":"2017-06-25T04:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/muddyvalleyfarm.com\/?p=770"},"modified":"2017-06-24T21:32:06","modified_gmt":"2017-06-25T04:32:06","slug":"hatch-day-for-alsty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/?p=770","title":{"rendered":"Hatch Day for Alsty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alsty did it again. Four Swedish Flowers, two Polish, and two Hoppy babies! I knew I could trust good old Alsty. Tonight at dusk I will tiptoe out to her brooding pen with a bucket of nine. Nine more chicks that is&#8230;eight Black Copper Marans and one Hoppy baby. The last incubator-hatched chicks of the 2017 season. Alsty can handle 17 just fine. She mothered 18 last time.<\/p>\n<p>And then guess what? For the first time since January 1st, no chicks in the house!<\/p>\n<p>It will be nice to take a break, and enjoy watching the young ones grow up. The coops are overcrowded, but everyone free ranges most of the day, all over half an acre of field, and tree-lined creek, and wood chip paddock, and horse barn; so it doesn&#8217;t matter. There are plenty of night perches, and by the time the cold wet weather keeps the flocks under cover, I will have chosen next year&#8217;s breeders and layers, and sold off the rest.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad I decided to hatch a few Hoppy eggs. She&#8217;s no fancy purebred, but she is the <a href=\"https:\/\/muddyvalleyfarm.com\/2016\/10\/18\/hoppys-story\/\">most indomitable chicken I know<\/a>. With three chicks, I should get at least one girl. Hopefully she will take after her momma.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-781\" src=\"https:\/\/muddyvalleyfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/img_6117.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6117\" width=\"1536\" height=\"2048\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-785\" src=\"https:\/\/muddyvalleyfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/img_6118.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6118\" width=\"972\" height=\"1475\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-783\" src=\"https:\/\/muddyvalleyfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/img_6120.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6120\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-782\" src=\"https:\/\/muddyvalleyfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/img_6119.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6119\" width=\"1536\" height=\"2048\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alsty did it again. Four Swedish Flowers, two Polish, and<\/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-770","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\/770","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=770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}