{"id":9839,"date":"2023-03-30T19:01:24","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T23:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=9839"},"modified":"2023-03-30T19:01:24","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T23:01:24","slug":"we-added-a-new-breed-of-chicken-to-the-homestead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2023\/03\/30\/we-added-a-new-breed-of-chicken-to-the-homestead\/","title":{"rendered":"We added a new breed of chicken to the homestead"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, our friend Dick called to see if we were still interested in getting a few of his rare breed chickens. Of course, I said yes! They are Whiting True Blues, bred by Tom Whiting in Colorado for fly tying. They were originally a cross between White Leghorns and Americaunas. Although I was expecting blue chickens, I found out that they come in a variety of coloration. Ours are kind of a brownish, barred with cream. And, on the way, one of the three hens laid an egg. And it was the exceptional light blue color the breed is known for producing!<\/p>\n

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This is the first box of eggs we’ve given to friends this spring.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Our friends, Mike, Dara, and Sherri came to help pack seeds today and as Sherri does not yet have chickens, I gave her a box of eggs from our chickens, which have started laying nicely, including the beautiful blue egg. That was fun. I can’t wait to hear what her husband says!<\/p>\n

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Sherri, holding the first Whiting True Blue egg.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Today I’ve started planting tomato seeds, in alphabetical order so I can keep them in order, both in transplanting and in the garden. As we grow so many different varieties, it’s important to keep them in order, especially in the garden, so we can find <\/em>them to show people and harvest. Who’d have thought, huh? — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, our friend Dick called to see if we were still interested in getting a few of his rare breed chickens. Of course, I said yes! They are Whiting True Blues, bred by Tom Whiting in Colorado for fly tying. They were originally a cross between White Leghorns and Americaunas. Although I was expecting blue […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9,12,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9839"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9842,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9839\/revisions\/9842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}