{"id":103,"date":"2012-05-24T14:04:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T14:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theolivefarm.biz\/blog\/?p=103"},"modified":"2013-02-02T14:05:59","modified_gmt":"2013-02-02T14:05:59","slug":"103","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theolivefarm.biz\/blog\/2012\/05\/103\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t count your chickens\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because we can..<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theolivefarm.biz\/blog\/photos\/Profligate-breeding_AE1C\/20120502-008.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"20120502-008\" alt=\"20120502-008\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theolivefarm.biz\/blog\/photos\/Profligate-breeding_AE1C\/20120502-008_thumb.jpg\" width=\"516\" height=\"347\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As none of our chickens ever sit on eggs, we started up the incubator early, and we have 50 chicks from 3 batches. Good result.<\/p>\n<p>Then, all of our hens decided that it was a good year for sitting, so God only knows how many chicks we have running around now, and more to come &#8211; at least another 30 so far! (Question: how many roast chickens can you eat in a year? We may be about to find out.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theolivefarm.biz\/blog\/photos\/Profligate-breeding_AE1C\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theolivefarm.biz\/blog\/photos\/Profligate-breeding_AE1C\/image_thumb.png\" width=\"450\" height=\"279\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We have a turkey who has no idea how to sit on eggs &#8211; she would sit all day, and then go and roost for the night. Therefore we also have a few turkey eggs in the incubator with indeterminate hatching dates, as we pilfered her nest &#8211; not much hope for them, but better than none. In addition, we have managed to hatch 7 (now 6) turkey chicks &#8211; we shall see how they go.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, we have approaching 20 guinea fowl eggs, so they will be next on the list for incubation, unless one of our new guinea fowl decides to sit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because we can.. As none of our chickens ever sit on eggs, we started up the incubator early, and we have 50 chicks from 3 batches. Good result. Then, all of our hens decided that it was a good year for sitting, so God only knows how many chicks we have running around now, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-livestock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theolivefarm.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theolivefarm.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theolivefarm.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theolivefarm.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theolivefarm.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theolivefarm.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105,"href":"https:\/\/theolivefarm.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions\/105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theolivefarm.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theolivefarm.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theolivefarm.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}