{"id":886,"date":"2012-09-09T18:00:54","date_gmt":"2012-09-09T22:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/?p=886"},"modified":"2012-09-16T13:52:56","modified_gmt":"2012-09-16T17:52:56","slug":"the-chicken-roosting-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/the-chicken-roosting-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"The Chicken Roosting Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My chickens are great! I get plenty of eggs from these three busy hens and they keep the bugs and ticks out of the back yard. BUT&#8230; two of them insist on roosting on the back porch railing and making a chicken poop mess all over the deck boards! Not only does this look bad, it stinks and it&#8217;s a bit unsanitary. I&#8217;ve tried several things to deter them from roosting here but they keep thwarting my efforts. I&#8217;d much rather have them roost in the chicken coop where they can poop all they want and ten I can collect it up to fertilize my garden soil.<\/p>\n<p>This week I&#8217;ve come up with a two step solution that just might work.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video and see what you think of my solution and if you think you have a better idea, I&#8217;d love to hear about it!<\/p>\n<p>Keep on hackin!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qxHs9Pd8Z_I\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My chickens are great! I get plenty of eggs from these three busy hens and they keep the bugs and ticks out of the back yard. BUT&#8230; two of them insist on roosting on the back porch railing and making &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/the-chicken-roosting-problem\/\">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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hacks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=886"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":895,"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions\/895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hackaweek.com\/hacks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}