{"id":1929,"date":"2016-04-29T21:12:12","date_gmt":"2016-04-30T02:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clarksite.com\/?p=1929"},"modified":"2016-04-29T21:12:12","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T02:12:12","slug":"roosting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clarksite.com\/?p=1929","title":{"rendered":"Roosting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kaden&#8217;s chickens have learned to go into their coop at night and how to roost. I no longer have to wrangle them into the coop, nor do I have to pick them up and put them on the roost. I only had to put them on the roost a couple times before they figured that part out.<\/p>\n<p>Kaden and I are both very happy that each night we go out to close the coop door &#8211; they are on the roost and ready for us to close it up.<\/p>\n<p>I might put the automation career to work at home and automate the door before winter. Speaking of automation, I planned to rebuild the waterer \u00a0&#8211; since it was leaking. I purchased new nipples, better quality than the originals I purchased. I got these from Tractor Supply. The first ones were from Amazon. Sometimes it&#8217;s better to hold what you are going to purchase. Losing $5 on the first ones does not hurt too bad.<\/p>\n<p>The garden is coming along, I built the cages out of a roll of rabbit wire. Worked out great and just in time. The wind is crazy this week, been gusting up to 55mph. I went out and took a peak, all plants still in place.<\/p>\n<p>Got the tomato plants in, and planted them deep this year. My uncle sent me an article talking about pruning them and deep planting. Figured I would try that this year. Only planted 8 this year.<\/p>\n<p>I am a little worried I may need to plant green beans again because it appears the full row I planted is not coming in &#8211; only 1 plant. The half row has 9 plants up. I guess I will wait a week then re-plant.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1929 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/clarksite.com\/?attachment_id=1930'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/clarksite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/image-9-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1930\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1930'>\n\t\t\t\tThe wire cages I built to protect the plants from the wind. \n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/clarksite.com\/?attachment_id=1931'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/clarksite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/image-10-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1931\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1931'>\n\t\t\t\tChickens have roosting down now. \n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/clarksite.com\/?attachment_id=1932'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/clarksite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/image-11-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1932\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1932'>\n\t\t\t\tGarden coming along. \n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/clarksite.com\/?attachment_id=1935'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/clarksite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/image-12-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kaden&#8217;s chickens have learned to go into their coop at night and how to roost. I no longer have to wrangle them into the coop, nor do I have to pick them up and put them on the roost. I only had to put them on the roost a couple times before they figured that part out. Kaden and I are both very happy that each night we go out to close the coop door &#8211; they are on the roost and ready for us to close it up. I might put the automation career to work at home and automate the door before winter. Speaking of automation, I planned to rebuild the waterer \u00a0&#8211; since it was leaking. I purchased new nipples, better quality than the originals I purchased. I got these from Tractor Supply. The first ones were from Amazon. Sometimes it&#8217;s better to hold what you are going to purchase. Losing $5 on the first ones does not hurt too bad. The garden is coming along, I built the cages out of a roll of rabbit wire. Worked out great and just in time. The wind is crazy this week, been gusting up to 55mph. I went out and took a peak, all plants still in place. Got the tomato plants in, and planted them deep this year. My uncle sent me an article talking about pruning them and deep planting. Figured I would try that this year. Only planted 8 this year. I am a little worried I may need to plant green beans again because it appears the full row I planted is not coming in &#8211; only 1 plant. The half row has 9 plants up. I guess I will wait a week then re-plant. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1931,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mylife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarksite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarksite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarksite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarksite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarksite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1929"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/clarksite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1936,"href":"https:\/\/clarksite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929\/revisions\/1936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarksite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarksite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarksite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarksite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}