{"id":71,"date":"2012-03-25T12:32:18","date_gmt":"2012-03-25T12:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theolivefarm.biz\/blog\/?p=71"},"modified":"2013-02-02T12:35:13","modified_gmt":"2013-02-02T12:35:13","slug":"roast-chicken-in-5-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theolivefarm.biz\/blog\/2012\/03\/roast-chicken-in-5-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Roast chicken in 5 months."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Incubating eggs the hard way &#8211; ideally our chickens would do this for us, but frankly, they don&#8217;t appear to be qualified. We need 100 chickens a year in the freezer, and thus far our hens have managed three chick (which snuck out of a hedge this morning, as a bit of an early Easter surprise)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theolivefarm.biz\/blog\/photos\/04f612101460_101F0\/20120313-024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"20120313-024\" alt=\"20120313-024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theolivefarm.biz\/blog\/photos\/04f612101460_101F0\/20120313-024_thumb.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"303\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>28 eggs crammed in to the incubator, having taken out all the bits of plastic that keep the eggs sitting comfortably, all so we can squeeze in a few extras.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theolivefarm.biz\/blog\/photos\/04f612101460_101F0\/20120313-025.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"20120313-025\" alt=\"20120313-025\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theolivefarm.biz\/blog\/photos\/04f612101460_101F0\/20120313-025_thumb.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"303\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here they are cooking &#8211; 37.5 degrees and 45% humidity for 18 days, followed by 65% humidity for the last 3 days. There is a cradle to rock the whole thing for the first 18 days that isn&#8217;t shown.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theolivefarm.biz\/blog\/photos\/04f612101460_101F0\/20120316-002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"20120316-002\" alt=\"20120316-002\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theolivefarm.biz\/blog\/photos\/04f612101460_101F0\/20120316-002_thumb.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"303\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And here is the ensuing mayhem when they all hatch at once. We have 17 healthy chicks from 26 eggs, which is a reasonable (but not outstanding) result. They look cuter later on, I promise. The first batch of the year gave us 12 chicks from 19 eggs. The third batch are currently baking at gas mark three &#8211; to be continued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incubating eggs the hard way &#8211; ideally our chickens would do this for us, but frankly, they don&#8217;t appear to be qualified. We need 100 chickens a year in the freezer, and thus far our hens have managed three chick (which snuck out of a hedge this morning, as a bit of an early Easter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theolivefarm.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71"}],"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=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/theolivefarm.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74,"href":"https:\/\/theolivefarm.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/74"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theolivefarm.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theolivefarm.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theolivefarm.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}