{"id":119,"date":"2012-04-30T22:12:53","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T22:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/?p=119"},"modified":"2012-04-30T22:19:02","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T22:19:02","slug":"where-do-urban-chickens-go-when-theyre-done-laying-eggs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/agriculture\/where-do-urban-chickens-go-when-theyre-done-laying-eggs\/","title":{"rendered":"Where do urban chickens go when they&#8217;re done laying eggs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">When an urban chicken&#8217;s egg-laying days are over, she might become dinner, she might live out her life as a pest-eating pet, or she might even be moved into a \u00a0<a title=\"A Place for Old Chickens, Outside the Pot\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/04\/26\/us\/new-homes-beckon-for-city-chickens-in-retirement.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;retirement home&#8221; for aging urban chickens<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A far-fetched idea in decades past, the poultry-retirement home&#8217;s existence serves as a reminder of the growing popularity of urban farming,* the need for animal owners to plan ahead for the lifetime of their animals, and a portrait of the &#8220;livestock-as-pet&#8221; phenomena that probably occurs more often than many farmers admit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: super; text-align: left;\">Do you keep chickens? And if so, what are your opinions on a &#8220;retirement home&#8221; service like this?<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\" style=\"font-size: 11px; text-align: center;\">\n<dl id=\"attachment_122\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 280px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/SpringChicken.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-122\" title=\"Urban Chicken\" src=\"http:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/SpringChicken.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\">Stella the friendly urban chicken, one of NAIA&#8217;s regular subscribers.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; font-size: 10px;\"><sup>* Portland, Oregon has more than 26 times the number of urban chicken permits today as it did twelve years ago.<\/sup><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you keep chickens? And if so, what are your opinions on a &#8220;retirement home&#8221; service like this?<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,10],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125,"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naiaonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}