{"id":2159,"date":"2013-01-01T00:01:51","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T08:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/book\/book-review-22\/"},"modified":"2023-08-17T16:16:44","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T23:16:44","slug":"a-chicken-in-every-yard-the-urban-farm-stores-guide-to-chicken-keeping","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/book\/a-chicken-in-every-yard-the-urban-farm-stores-guide-to-chicken-keeping\/","title":{"rendered":"A chicken in every yard : the Urban Farm Store&#8217;s guide to chicken keeping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img_left\" src=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/graphix\/chicken-litt.jpg\" alt=\"book\" align=\"left\" \/> Robert and Hannah Litt own the Urban Farm Store in Portland and wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/hortlib.kohacatalog.com\/cgi-bin\/koha\/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=13485\"> &#8220;A Chicken in Every Yard&#8221; <\/a> from experience keeping their own chickens, and helping their chicken-keeping customers. While they don&#8217;t disapprove of raising chickens for food, theirs are clearly pets and the book encourages this attitude with chapters like &#8220;Parenting Your Peeps.&#8221; There is a lot of detail about different types and breeds, including recommendation lists such as &#8220;best for children.&#8221; All stages of raising and caring are covered in depth, but the garden is only briefly mentioned. If your focus is solely on chickens, this book is an excellent choice.<\/p>\n<p>Excerpted from the Winter 2013 <em>Arboretum Bulletin.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert and Hannah Litt own the Urban Farm Store in Portland and wrote &#8220;A Chicken in Every Yard&#8221; from experience keeping their own chickens, and helping their chicken-keeping customers. While they don&#8217;t disapprove of raising chickens for food, theirs are clearly pets and the book encourages this attitude with chapters like &#8220;Parenting Your Peeps.&#8221; There is a lot of detail about different types and breeds, including recommendation lists such as &#8220;best for children.&#8221; All stages of raising and caring are&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/book\/a-chicken-in-every-yard-the-urban-farm-stores-guide-to-chicken-keeping\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A chicken in every yard : the Urban Farm Store&#8217;s guide to chicken keeping<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","keyword":[60,22],"class_list":["post-2159","book","type-book","status-publish","hentry","keyword-chickens","keyword-reviews"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book\/2159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/book"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keyword?post=2159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}