{"id":1350,"date":"2013-07-29T02:17:39","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T02:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/?p=1350"},"modified":"2013-07-29T02:20:38","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T02:20:38","slug":"celebration-the-chooks-have-delivered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/?p=1350","title":{"rendered":"Celebration! The Chooks Have Delivered"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Have I got something to tell you.<\/p>\n

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My chooks, my beautiful chooks, after months of feeding them, have begun to deliver. Why do I call them “chooks?”\u00a0 David and I have been watching a television series filmed in Australia about a group of women who farm a cattle, sheep and alpaca ranch.\u00a0 It’s called McCleod’s Daughters and we watch it at least once a day. The women call the chickens on the ranch chooks.\u00a0 I don’t know if that is the way Australians say chicks, or if that is what they call chickens.\u00a0 Could someone from Australia let me know?\u00a0 Anyway, we started calling our chicks, chooks.<\/p>\n

This morning I went out to let the chooks out and saw a broken egg on the floor. The silly chook who laid it didn’t even get off the roost to lay her egg!\u00a0 Then this afternoon after church I went out and there was a soft shelled egg under the roost.<\/p>\n

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Later in the afternoon I was reading the paper and David came in and said he would let me find the first real egg because one of the hens was sitting in a nesting box.\u00a0 I went out to check underneath her and all I felt was a plastic Easter egg.\u00a0 Then while I was raking out their yard, I heard some really loud and very different clucks coming from the coop and I went to look and Penninah had laid an egg.\u00a0 It was kind of small, but a perfect little egg.\u00a0 I was so excited.<\/p>\n

I had had a contest on my Facebook page to name my first egg.\u00a0 A friend gave me a really good idea for the\u00a0name so now you must meet her.<\/p>\n

Meet Princess Ida Gottlaid.<\/p>\n

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Like her crown?\u00a0 Now I will be looking for eggs every day and soon we will be eating omelettes,\u00a0 scrambled eggs, deviled eggs, eggs benedict and………..<\/p>\n

Here’s to laying hens and a happy chicken keeper.\u00a0 Bye.<\/p>\n

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Have I got something to tell you.   My chooks, my beautiful chooks, after months of feeding them, have begun to deliver. Why do I call them “chooks?”\u00a0 David and I have been watching a television series filmed in Australia about a group of women who farm a cattle, sheep and alpaca ranch.\u00a0 It’s called […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-chooks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1350"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1356,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350\/revisions\/1356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}