{"id":1303,"date":"2012-12-04T07:57:24","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T12:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=1303"},"modified":"2012-12-25T20:12:31","modified_gmt":"2012-12-26T01:12:31","slug":"weve-been-busy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/weve-been-busy-2\/","title":{"rendered":"We’ve been busy…."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>…both on and off the farm.\u00a0 But here’s our pre-occupation right now at Thistle Hill:\u00a0 welcoming new calves to our world.\u00a0 It’s the most special time of the year.\u00a0 This is our seventeenth calf so far, a heifer, by one of our best cows.\u00a0 The sire is U2, which means she has Rotokawa 974 in her blood.<\/p>\n

The calf is still wet and a bit wobbly.\u00a0 Wobbly is good when you have to tag a new-born.\u00a0 A few more hours and she would have been too “mobile” to catch and we would have had to wait to catch her sleeping.\u00a0 A tag snapped into your ear comes under the heading of “rude awakening”.<\/p>\n

At least with Devon cattle you don’t have to deal with a defensive mother.\u00a0 In fact, most often they seem to be encouraging their newborn to hold still.\u00a0 It only hurts for a moment.\u00a0 Like a shot for a baby.<\/p>\n

We’ve had a preponderance of bull calves so far this year but the recent births have begun to even the ratio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…both on and off the farm.\u00a0 But here’s our pre-occupation right now at Thistle Hill:\u00a0 welcoming new calves to our world.\u00a0 It’s the most special time of the year.\u00a0 This is our seventeenth calf so far, a heifer, by one of our best cows.\u00a0 The sire is U2, which means she has Rotokawa 974 in her blood. The calf is still wet and a bit wobbly.\u00a0 Wobbly is good when you have to tag a new-born.\u00a0 A few more hours and she would have been too “mobile” to catch and we would have had to wait to catch her sleeping.\u00a0 A tag snapped into your ear comes under the heading of “rude awakening”. At least with Devon cattle you don’t have to deal with a defensive mother.\u00a0 In fact, most often they seem to be encouraging their newborn to hold still.\u00a0 It only hurts for a moment.\u00a0 Like a shot for a baby. We’ve had a preponderance of bull calves so far this year but the recent births have begun to even the ratio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cows"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303","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=1303"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1412,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions\/1412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}