{"id":13297,"date":"2014-01-01T15:41:24","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T15:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13297"},"modified":"2014-01-01T15:54:32","modified_gmt":"2014-01-01T15:54:32","slug":"chickens-and-the-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/01\/chickens-and-the-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"Chickens and the snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine being rescued from a battery<\/p>\n<p>and left to free range in the snow today<\/p>\n<p>how the icy whiteness<\/p>\n<p>feels on your tender feet<\/p>\n<p>and realise that Nature helps<\/p>\n<p>lets them play<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the chicken used to wire now face<\/p>\n<p>reality, cold snow<\/p>\n<p>under foot<\/p>\n<p>and they appear<\/p>\n<p>ready to just go<\/p>\n<p>try it<\/p>\n<p>leave their foot prints<\/p>\n<p>in it<\/p>\n<p>and it isn&#8217;t long before<\/p>\n<p>countless foot prints<\/p>\n<p>have decimated all the<\/p>\n<p>snow for sure<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>turned it into slush<\/p>\n<p>and carefuly trodden \u00a0mush<\/p>\n<p>a phenomena<\/p>\n<p>that these chicken all now know<\/p>\n<p>after months of being crammed<\/p>\n<p>in cages<\/p>\n<p>to have the sense of freedom<\/p>\n<p>to just go<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>to just run around<\/p>\n<p>and do it<\/p>\n<p>feel the ice \u00a0and snow<\/p>\n<p>its a great experience<\/p>\n<p>to all be in the flow<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #444444;\">it must give them some thing<\/span><\/p>\n<p>to really talk about<\/p>\n<p>a new experience to tell their chicks<\/p>\n<p>who might be in some doubt<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>this is freedom this is life<\/p>\n<p>the factory floor was hell<\/p>\n<p>the fresh air and the cold wind<\/p>\n<p>and to experience a cold spell<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>of life here in the open<\/p>\n<p>free ranging neath the sky<\/p>\n<p>playing with this soft white snow<\/p>\n<p>and really feeling high<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine being rescued from a battery and left to free range in the snow today how the icy whiteness feels on your tender feet and realise that Nature helps lets them play &nbsp; the chicken used to wire now face &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/01\/chickens-and-the-snow\/\">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":[120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chickens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13297","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=13297"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13300,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13297\/revisions\/13300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}