{"id":85,"date":"2008-11-13T13:34:26","date_gmt":"2008-11-13T23:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washedashore.com\/eggsntea\/?p=85"},"modified":"2010-01-13T21:40:12","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T07:40:12","slug":"our-brown-laying-hens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/2008\/11\/our-brown-laying-hens\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Brown Laying Hens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ben is giving a talk about chickens today at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uhh.hawaii.edu\/academics\/nherc\/\" target=\"_blank\">NHERC<\/a> (North Hawaii  Education and Research Center) down in Honokaa tonight. I&#8217;m assembling some photogenic shots of our hens for his slideshow. You might wonder what breeds of hens do we have? It&#8217;s time I posted about our flock numbers!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>buff orpington, 8<\/li>\n<li>barred plymouth rock, 5<\/li>\n<li>black australorp, 4<\/li>\n<li>white plymouth rock, 6<\/li>\n<li>silver laced wyandotte, 7<\/li>\n<li>black sex-linked hybrids, 5<\/li>\n<li>dark indian game, 1<\/li>\n<li>light brahma, 1<\/li>\n<li>red turken, 1<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s 38 in all.\u00a0 They are all brown egg layers; some are more friendly than others. My personal favorites are the <a title=\"My buffs\" href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/bdiscoe\/Chickens#5231682798752718146\" target=\"_blank\">Buff Orpingtons<\/a> because they are gentle, friendly and best of all, most of them cuddle up with me. My allergy test shows I&#8217;m allergic to a gamut of furry creatures (cats, dogs, horses, goat, rabbits, rodents, etc.). Because I&#8217;m not allergic to my hens, I am so happy to they choose to cuddle up with me.<\/p>\n<p>[I&#8217;m not supposed to play favorites as a chicken keeper, am I?]<\/p>\n<p>The red turken also know as naked neck because the breed has a <a title=\"Turken Chickens\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ansi.okstate.edu\/poultry\/chickens\/turken\/\" target=\"_blank\">single gene<\/a> that affects the arrangement    of feather-growing tracts over the chicken&#8217;s body.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/washedashore.com\/eggsntea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/ourbrownlayinghens.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-86 aligncenter\" title=\"ourbrownlayinghens\" src=\"http:\/\/washedashore.com\/eggsntea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/ourbrownlayinghens.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/ourbrownlayinghens.jpg 640w, http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/ourbrownlayinghens-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben is giving a talk about chickens today at NHERC (North Hawaii Education and Research Center) down in Honokaa tonight. I&#8217;m assembling some photogenic shots of our hens for his slideshow. You might wonder what breeds of hens do we &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/2008\/11\/our-brown-laying-hens\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chickens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions\/262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}