{"id":6256,"date":"2014-04-16T16:19:46","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T08:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=6256"},"modified":"2014-06-03T19:14:58","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T11:14:58","slug":"out-to-the-big-cage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/16\/out-to-the-big-cage\/","title":{"rendered":"Out to the big cage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/20140416_095020.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6250\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/20140416_095020-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"20140416_095020\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/20140416_095020-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/20140416_095020.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>At <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/12\/about-8-hours-old\/\">five weeks old<\/a>, it is time for <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/24\/birds-at-12-days\/\">D\u2019Artagnan and the 3 Musketeers<\/a> to move outside to the big cage. \u00a0They have most of their adult feathers and the forecast is for a couple of mild nights. \u00a0 They are getting a bit smelly to keep in the bathroom and I don&#8217;t want to put their brooder\u00a0box in the feed shed with the rats. \u00a0Rats could get into this cage too, but the birds have more space to to flap out of reach. They look so tiny in there. \u00a0I will leave\u00a0the brooder box in with them for a couple of days so they have something familiar. \u00a0With all the &#8220;prey&#8221; animals on the farm, I find it best to only change one thing at a time to\u00a0keep stress at a minimum.<\/p>\n<p>When the adults came for tea they could hear them cheeping and rushed round looking under rocks and logs trying to find them. \u00a0They are obviously much better parents than they are purported\u00a0to be.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><video controls=\"\" autoplay=\"\" name=\"media\"><source src=\"http:\/\/videos-a-15.ak.instagram.com\/hphotos-ak-xfp1\/10267368_1424523037805455_321699324_n.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\"><\/video><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At five weeks old, it is time for D\u2019Artagnan and the 3 Musketeers to move outside to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6250,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Out to the big cage","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guinea-fowl","category-not-so-wildlife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/20140416_095020.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6256"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6264,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6256\/revisions\/6264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}