{"id":32576,"date":"2021-03-04T14:39:52","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T14:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=32576"},"modified":"2021-03-04T14:39:52","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T14:39:52","slug":"allotment-greens-for-the-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=32576","title":{"rendered":"Allotment greens for the girls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nothing from the allotment is ever wasted when you have chickens. We have just been clearing the allotment plots ready for the start of this year&#8217;s planting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There were still some cabbages that hadn&#8217;t hearted up. We decided to lift them and let the chooks have them. I put some in the run each day and take the bare stalks out at the end of the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/the-girls-have-alotment-cabbages.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32596\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/the-girls-have-alotment-cabbages.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/the-girls-have-alotment-cabbages-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/the-girls-have-alotment-cabbages-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption>The girls have allotment cabbages <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/the-girls-are-enjoying-the-cabbages.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32597\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/the-girls-are-enjoying-the-cabbages.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/the-girls-are-enjoying-the-cabbages-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/the-girls-are-enjoying-the-cabbages-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption>The girls are enjoying their cabbages<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/just-the-stalks-are-left-at-the-end-of-the-day.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/just-the-stalks-are-left-at-the-end-of-the-day.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/just-the-stalks-are-left-at-the-end-of-the-day-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/just-the-stalks-are-left-at-the-end-of-the-day-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption>There are just the stalks left at the end of the day<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I love to see the girls enjoying the allotment produce. It gives them their daily greens but also provides them with a bit of entertainment too. They keep going back to them and pecking at them a bit more. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing from the allotment is ever wasted when you have chickens. We have just been clearing the allotment plots ready for the start of this year&#8217;s planting. There were still some cabbages that hadn&#8217;t hearted up. We decided to lift &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=32576\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32576"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32576"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32602,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32576\/revisions\/32602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}