{"id":552,"date":"2009-02-09T03:58:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-09T03:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=552"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:13:51","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:13:51","slug":"feathered-fashionistas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=552","title":{"rendered":"Feathered fashionistas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/kevschick1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300643630476425122\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 304px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 224px\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/kevschick1-300x225.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">My brother shared this pic of a couple of his chickens on top of an old shed; he said with last week&#8217;s snow they just sort of poked their little heads out the coop and didn&#8217;t know what to make of it.<\/p>\n<p>Silly chickens!<\/p>\n<p>Not having much first hand experience, I&#8217;m not sure if I should believe those who say chickens are pretty smart or those who say they&#8217;re really dumb.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s pretty neat to see my brother understanding a bit more about bird behavior because of his chickens; he recognizes the peculiar sound the flock makes when they&#8217;ve spotted a hawk overhead and this winter he&#8217;s busy figuring o<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_YcXlERVmPdE\/SY-uiP0oCFI\/AAAAAAAADR4\/kseClwYZHpk\/s800-h\/IMG_8562.jpg\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300647189824407634\" style=\"FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 214px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/IMG_8562-200x300.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">ut how to keep starlings out of the coop to steal the chickenfeed.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with suggestions on that?<\/p>\n<p>He demonstrated some weird kind of chicken logic for me today. They react to particular colors he says&#8230; he called them &#8220;fashion police&#8221; actually, and brought out this shirt that he says they hate. Sure enough the flock scattered at the sight of it and were freaked out for the rest of the afternoon, clucking suspiciously at us from beneath the pine trees at the edge of the yard while we talked.<\/p>\n<p>Silly chickens!<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My brother shared this pic of a couple of his chickens on top of an old shed; he said with last week&#8217;s snow they just sort of poked their little heads out the coop and didn&#8217;t know what to make of it. Silly chickens! Not having much first hand experience, I&#8217;m not sure if I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=552\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Feathered fashionistas<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}