{"id":6833,"date":"2020-08-01T20:51:33","date_gmt":"2020-08-02T01:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=6833"},"modified":"2020-08-02T20:59:33","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T01:59:33","slug":"chicken-brooder-setup-water-and-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=6833","title":{"rendered":"Chicken Brooder Setup &#8211; Water and Heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The heater that I ordered from Amazon for the baby chickens was a dud &#8212; I&#8217;ve got to send it back tomorrow. I ordered a different heater &#8212; both are like heating pads on legs to allow the chickens to huddle under it like a mommy hen.<\/p>\n<p>We got the first bag of starter food along with a feeder and water container. While the water container is designed to prevent drowning, Anya read about putting rocks into the water tray in her chicken keeping book &#8230; so we gathered too-big-for-a-chicken-to-swallow stones, washed them, and have them in the water tray for extra safety.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?attachment_id=6834\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6834\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-6834\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_20200802_113559-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_20200802_113559-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_20200802_113559-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_20200802_113559-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_20200802_113559-750x563.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_20200802_113559-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_20200802_113559.jpg 1365w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The heater that I ordered from Amazon for the baby chickens was a dud &#8212; I&#8217;ve got to send it back tomorrow. I ordered a different heater &#8212; both are like heating pads on legs to allow the chickens to huddle under it like a mommy hen. We got the first bag of starter food &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1066],"tags":[1073,1072],"class_list":["post-6833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chickens","tag-baby-chickens","tag-brooder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6835,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6833\/revisions\/6835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}