{"id":1127,"date":"2012-08-28T06:56:17","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T10:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=1127"},"modified":"2012-08-28T06:56:17","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T10:56:17","slug":"we-dont-think-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/we-dont-think-so\/","title":{"rendered":"We don&#8217;t think so&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_0694.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1128\" title=\"IMG_0694\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_0694-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>&#8230;.you may say they&#8217;re alfalfa pellets but they sure look like grain and Mommy told us to stay away from grain.<\/p>\n<p>At least that&#8217;s what these two heifers seem to be saying to Wooz.\u00a0 Some of our animals never do try them&#8230;.coming into the pen when we treat the herd to alfalfa pellets but just standing to the side and watching.<\/p>\n<p>It can be a problem, when you&#8217;re raising grass fed beef, rounding up the cows.\u00a0 But, particularly with mob grazing, they get caught up in the excitement of running and are carried along.\u00a0 Sometimes, as with these heifers in a satellite pasture, it can take coaxing and patience.\u00a0 It can be best to just wait in the pasture and appear to be busy; the cows get curious about what you&#8217;re doing.<\/p>\n<p>To explain about alfalfa pellets:\u00a0 alfalfa is a forage, not a grain, has can be fed under grass fed protocols.\u00a0 There are a few other &#8220;legal&#8221; feeds: cottonseed hulls and beet pulps, to name just two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.you may say they&#8217;re alfalfa pellets but they sure look like grain and Mommy told us to stay away from grain. At least that&#8217;s what these two heifers seem to be saying to Wooz.\u00a0 Some of our animals never do try them&#8230;.coming into the pen when we treat the herd to alfalfa pellets but just standing to the side and watching. It can be a problem, when you&#8217;re raising grass fed beef, rounding up the cows.\u00a0 But, particularly with mob grazing, they get caught up in the excitement of running and are carried along.\u00a0 Sometimes, as with these heifers in a satellite pasture, it can take coaxing and patience.\u00a0 It can be best to just wait in the pasture and appear to be busy; the cows get curious about what you&#8217;re doing. To explain about alfalfa pellets:\u00a0 alfalfa is a forage, not a grain, has can be fed under grass fed protocols.\u00a0 There are a few other &#8220;legal&#8221; feeds: cottonseed hulls and beet pulps, to name just two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1129,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127\/revisions\/1129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}