{"id":5548,"date":"2012-10-15T13:17:17","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T20:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davenaves.com\/blog\/?p=5548"},"modified":"2025-07-22T21:36:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T04:36:22","slug":"chickens-lessons-learned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davenaves.com\/blog\/interests-projects\/chickens\/chickens-lessons-learned\/","title":{"rendered":"Chickens: Lessons Learned"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Things I never knew about chickens, etc:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Chickens are *very* social animals<\/li>\n<li>Chickens make a <a title=\"Chickens make a specific crowing sound after they lay an egg\" href=\"\/blog\/interests-projects\/chickens\/chicken-egg-laying-alarm\/\">specific crowing sound<\/a> after they lay an egg<\/li>\n<li>Chickens have pin-point accuracy with their beaks<\/li>\n<li>Chickens have killer eyesight<\/li>\n<li>Fresh eggs have harder shells than store-bought eggs<\/li>\n<li>Chickens eat most every table scrap<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Pecking orders&#8221; do exist<\/li>\n<li>I now understand from where the word &#8220;chicken&#8221; was derived (they are very nervous around unfamiliar things)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?rt=tf_mfw&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Fdaveworkswebd-20%2F8001%2Ffd0b10e6-fb2a-49d1-b5c5-d959633e047d\" type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\"> <\/script><noscript><A HREF=\"https:\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?rt=tf_mfw&#038;ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Fdaveworkswebd-20%2F8001%2Ffd0b10e6-fb2a-49d1-b5c5-d959633e047d&#038;Operation=NoScript\">Amazon.com Widgets<\/A><\/noscript><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things I never knew about chickens, etc: Chickens are *very*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[55,54],"class_list":["post-5548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chickens","tag-lessons-learned-about-chickens","tag-things-i-never-knew-about-chickens"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davenaves.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5548","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=5548"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/davenaves.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8423,"href":"https:\/\/davenaves.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5548\/revisions\/8423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davenaves.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davenaves.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davenaves.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davenaves.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}