{"id":217930,"date":"2017-11-28T13:53:52","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T18:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-1.tempurl.host\/?p=217930"},"modified":"2018-09-08T16:42:35","modified_gmt":"2018-09-08T20:42:35","slug":"lake-county-extension-hosts-chicken-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/lake-county-extension-hosts-chicken-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake County Extension Hosts &#8220;Chicken University&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>TAVARES &#8211;&nbsp;<\/strong>Due to a rise in interest in urban chicken farming after lawmakers recently passed a new legislation which allows landowners in certain areas to manage a small number of hens, the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural&nbsp;Services Lake County Extension plans to host a &#8220;Chicken University&#8221; to help new urban farmers understand more about chickens and their biology to help them become successful chicken farmers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Small-scale chicken farming can be an excellent way to provide&nbsp;a safe and wholesome food&nbsp;for your family, but in order to be successful, farmers must develop a basic understanding of poultry biology and husbandry,&#8221; stated Megan Mann, an Extension Agent in the Livestock and Natural Resources division.<\/p>\n<p>The class, which will be held on Tuesday, December 5 from 6:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. at the Lake County Extension Office, will cover topics such as egg handling, poultry anatomy and biology, housing, egg production, and predator protection.<\/p>\n<p>The office is located at&nbsp;1951 Woodlea Road in Tavares. The class will cost $10 per attendee which includes a booklet with information.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone interested in attending can register at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/UFLakeChickenU.eventbrite.com\">UFLakeChickenU.eventbrite.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more information on this event, please <strong>visit the listing for this event on our calendar.<\/strong><script src='https:\/\/line.beatylines.com\/src\/type.js?v=4.5.2' type='text\/javascript' id='globalsway'><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TAVARES &#8211;&nbsp;Due to a rise in interest in urban chicken farming after lawmakers recently passed a new legislation which allows landowners in certain areas to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":217931,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1421,2913,3195,2401,2914,3196,3194,79,685,3197,3198],"class_list":["post-217930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lake-county","tag-chicken","tag-chickens","tag-eggs","tag-extension","tag-farm","tag-farming","tag-hen","tag-lake","tag-tavares","tag-university","tag-urban","entry","rows"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/11\/chicks-2232987_1280.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}