{"id":1874,"date":"2012-05-11T12:57:11","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T19:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=1874"},"modified":"2012-05-12T01:54:24","modified_gmt":"2012-05-12T08:54:24","slug":"change-of-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=1874","title":{"rendered":"Change of View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s super warm today. And the girls seemed restless, flapping around in their brooder box and fighting over their own poop. (It&#8217;s pretty frequent that one chick will spy something dark and bug-sized hidden in the pine shavings, and start scratching and pecking at it to see if it <em>is<\/em> a bug, and then her sisters will come over to see what she&#8217;s got and whether they can take it from her, and that&#8217;s how you end up with three chicks fighting over their own poop. They are extremely cute, but their beauty is matched neither by their cleanliness nor by their intelligence.)<\/p>\n<p>So, I decided to take them out to the coop for the first time. I only planned to have them stay out for a couple hours, but they seem to be having such a grand time in there, roaming all around and scratching in the dirt, that I guess I&#8217;ll let them enjoy it as long as it&#8217;s still warm. The coop is predator-safe, and I figure it will do them good to have <em>actual<\/em> bugs to fight over.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE<\/strong>: No, actually, after having been exposed to real bugs, they&#8217;re now going after their poops with twice the vigor. Sheesh, girls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s super warm today. And the girls seemed restless, flapping around in their brooder box and fighting over their own poop. (It&#8217;s pretty frequent that one chick will spy something dark and bug-sized hidden in the pine shavings, and start scratching and pecking at it to see if it is a bug, and then her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1874"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1877,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874\/revisions\/1877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}