{"id":5169,"date":"2018-08-14T15:02:50","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T22:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/?post_type=book&#038;p=5169"},"modified":"2022-09-23T14:38:56","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T21:38:56","slug":"the-new-rules-of-the-roost-organic-care-feeding-for-the-family","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/book\/the-new-rules-of-the-roost-organic-care-feeding-for-the-family\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Rules Of The Roost: Organic Care &#038; Feeding for the Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5170\" src=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/the-new-rules-of-the-roost.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"417\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/the-new-rules-of-the-roost.jpg 417w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/the-new-rules-of-the-roost-375x450.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 417px) 100vw, 417px\" \/>Robert and Hannah Litt of Portland wrote <em>A Chicken in Every Yard<\/em>, published in 2011.\u00a0 They regard their chickens as pets to pamper and keep safe \u2013 they only eat their eggs.\u00a0 This book will tell you how to do the same.<\/p>\n<p>On a visit to the island of Kauai in Hawai\u2019i, the Litt family discovered that chickens have naturalized and do quite well looking after themselves.\u00a0 This led to a new book, <em>The New Rules of the Roost<\/em> (2018) that incorporates some of this avian independence.\u00a0 Now the setting for their home flock is \u201cmore dynamic, so that our chickens can safely forage for food and scratch around, but when and where we want them to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>How does all this work with the garden?\u00a0 Very well, if you consider the hens as part of the family \u2013 it just takes a lot of compromise and ingenuity.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Published in <em>Garden Notes: Northwest Horticultural Society<\/em>, Fall 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert and Hannah Litt of Portland wrote A Chicken in Every Yard, published in 2011.\u00a0 They regard their chickens as pets to pamper and keep safe \u2013 they only eat their eggs.\u00a0 This book will tell you how to do the same. On a visit to the island of Kauai in Hawai\u2019i, the Litt family discovered that chickens have naturalized and do quite well looking after themselves.\u00a0 This led to a new book, The New Rules of the Roost (2018)&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/book\/the-new-rules-of-the-roost-organic-care-feeding-for-the-family\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The New Rules Of The Roost: Organic Care &#038; Feeding for the Family<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","keyword":[60,969,1162,22],"class_list":["post-5169","book","type-book","status-publish","hentry","keyword-chickens","keyword-organic-farming","keyword-poultry-farms","keyword-reviews"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book\/5169"}],"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\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keyword?post=5169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}