{"id":1,"date":"2012-06-20T02:21:05","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T02:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davenaves.com\/blog\/?p=1"},"modified":"2025-07-22T21:49:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T04:49:47","slug":"chicken-fever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davenaves.com\/blog\/interests-projects\/chickens\/chicken-fever\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicken Fever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_6664\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6664\" src=\"https:\/\/davenaves.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/rich-dave-300x247.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/davenaves.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/rich-dave-300x247.jpg\" alt=\"Dave and Rich\" width=\"250\" class=\"lazyload size-medium wp-image-6664\" srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/davenaves.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/rich-dave-300x247.jpg 300w, https:\/\/davenaves.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/rich-dave-500x412.jpg 500w, https:\/\/davenaves.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/rich-dave-700x577.jpg 700w, https:\/\/davenaves.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/rich-dave.jpg 1000w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6664\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dave and Rich, The Dude Chicken.<\/p><\/div>My family caught chicken fever&#8230;  so we started out on an adventure in raising chicks and building out a custom chicken coop in the Spring of 2012.<\/p>\n<p>We wanted all different types of eggs, so we raised all kinds of <strong><a href=\"\/blog\/interests-projects\/chickens\/the-girls\/the-girls-2\/\" title=\"The Girls\">chicks<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"\/blog\/interests-projects\/chickens\/pollo-palace-2\/\" title=\"El Pollo Palace\">The coop<\/a><\/strong>, &#8220;El Pollo Palace,&#8221; had to be awesome, made from recycled materials, efficient, green as possible and technologically advanced beyond anything reasonable.  I think I&#8217;m on my way to having just that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My family caught chicken fever&#8230; so we started out on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,18,4,17],"tags":[34,35],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-chicken-coop","category-chickens","category-the-girls","tag-how-to-build-a-chicken-coop","tag-pimp-my-coop"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davenaves.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davenaves.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davenaves.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davenaves.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davenaves.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":45,"href":"https:\/\/davenaves.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8438,"href":"https:\/\/davenaves.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/8438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davenaves.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davenaves.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davenaves.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}