{"id":12276,"date":"2013-11-17T13:46:52","date_gmt":"2013-11-17T13:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12276"},"modified":"2013-11-17T13:52:32","modified_gmt":"2013-11-17T13:52:32","slug":"chick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/11\/chick\/","title":{"rendered":"Chickety chickety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My names is chickety<br \/>\nI am a chick<br \/>\nI&#8217;m so excited<br \/>\nthat this place I did pick<br \/>\nout of the window what do I see<br \/>\na big bright blue sky<br \/>\nits a good place to be<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m in the hatchery<br \/>\nI was born there<br \/>\nthere was so much chirping<br \/>\nit just filled the air<br \/>\nI am now in a basket<br \/>\nwith lots of my own<br \/>\nits warm and I can snuggle up<br \/>\nand not be alone<\/p>\n<p>it would just tear my heart out<br \/>\nand its lovely to see<br \/>\nall the balls of fluff<br \/>\nwhich of course, now I be<br \/>\nit seems we are leaving<br \/>\nwhere will we go<br \/>\nI am a male chick<br \/>\nthat much I know<\/p>\n<p>will I one day<br \/>\nbe a rooster so red<br \/>\na cock that can crow<br \/>\nand be so well fed<br \/>\nwill a I strut in the farmyard<br \/>\nwith my harem of hens<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll just have to wait<br \/>\nbut now I&#8217;m with friends<\/p>\n<p>we&#8217;re off on a longish  conveyor<br \/>\nit seems<br \/>\na journey to somewhere<br \/>\nbeyond all our dreams<br \/>\ninto a land of sunshine and rain<br \/>\nwith enough space to fly<br \/>\nand weight we can gain<\/p>\n<p>chugging along chirping away<br \/>\nchattering happily<br \/>\nwanting to play<br \/>\nwe are the Easter chicks<br \/>\nthat&#8217;s what we do<br \/>\nwe&#8217;re happy and honestly<br \/>\nwe do love you<\/p>\n<p>then we begin to slow<br \/>\nand we hear a great grinding monster<br \/>\nexpressing such fear<br \/>\ngreat teeth made of steel<br \/>\nwith gums too that chew<br \/>\noh hell what is happening<br \/>\nahead what they do<\/p>\n<p>they are throwing the chicks into<br \/>\nthis dreadful hole<br \/>\nI can hear all the bones being<br \/>\ncrushed every soul<br \/>\ntheir tiny tears<br \/>\ntheir tiny screams<br \/>\noh god what is happening<br \/>\nto our chickety teams <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m getting closer<br \/>\ncan I leap on the floor<br \/>\ncan I get out of this<br \/>\ncan I run out the door<br \/>\nis it possible I can escape<br \/>\nwhat appears<br \/>\nto be my death by being ground up<br \/>\nall these tears<\/p>\n<p>I feel them they are coming<br \/>\nmy little heads wet<br \/>\nwill I be crushed too<br \/>\nit seems that is set<br \/>\nI leap off the belt<br \/>\nand crash onto the floor<br \/>\nand all of the others<br \/>\nthere arn&#8217;t any more<\/p>\n<p>just a grey residue<br \/>\na feathery slop<br \/>\ndripping with blood<br \/>\nout by me does pop<br \/>\nI&#8217;m a survivor<br \/>\nand I&#8217;ve got away<br \/>\nbut along comes some tart<br \/>\nwith a bloody great tray<br \/>\nshe treads down on me<br \/>\nwow! breathing my last<br \/>\nI&#8217;m as flat as a pancake<br \/>\ngone to and fast<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My names is chickety I am a chick I&#8217;m so excited that this place I did pick out of the window what do I see a big bright blue sky its a good place to be I&#8217;m in the hatchery &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/11\/chick\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chickens-ducks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12276"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12281,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12276\/revisions\/12281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}