{"id":30986,"date":"2024-04-19T08:44:36","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T13:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/?p=30986"},"modified":"2024-04-11T15:19:48","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T20:19:48","slug":"small-animal-exchange-each-saturday-in-alton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/business\/small-animal-exchange-each-saturday-in-alton-20240419","title":{"rendered":"Small Animal Exchange Each Saturday In Alton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Alton, Mo. \u2013 <\/strong>The Mo\/Ark Livestock Auction House may not have auctions at present, but it does have a small animal exchange each Saturday. Bring your chickens, rabbits, or other small livestock to sell or trade. Here are the details.<\/p>\n<h3>What Is Happening?<\/h3>\n<p>Local residents bring their small animals, like chickens or puppies, to the auction house to sell or trade. Other vendors show up selling homemade treats or baked goods.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8805\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8805\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8805 size-image-640px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/chickens-640x333.jpg\" alt=\"Chickens in cages.\" width=\"625\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/chickens-640x333.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/chickens-230x120.jpg 230w, https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/chickens-710x368.jpg 710w, https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/chickens-300x156.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8805\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chickens in cages.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>Where Is This?<\/h3>\n<p>The Mo\/Ark Livestock Auction House is located on Highway AA, north of Alton. The auction house is on the north side of the road. It supplies a large mowed field for parking or trading.<\/p>\n<h3>When Does This Take Place?<\/h3>\n<p>Each Saturday, weather permitting, buyers and sellers gather in the parking lot between 9 and noon. If there is a crowd, some do stay until 1:00 pm.<\/p>\n<h3>Who Can Come?<\/h3>\n<p>This is open to everyone with no entrance fee.<\/p>\n<p>This is an excellent way to sell your abundance, buy locally, or trade with a neighbor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>he Mo\/Ark Livestock Auction House may not have auctions at present, but it does have a small animal exchange each Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[243,214,201,264,205,228,263],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30986"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30986"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32036,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30986\/revisions\/32036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}