{"id":1315,"date":"2012-12-05T12:09:10","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T17:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=1315"},"modified":"2012-12-25T20:12:31","modified_gmt":"2012-12-26T01:12:31","slug":"waiting-for-422","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/waiting-for-422\/","title":{"rendered":"Waiting for 422…."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>….patiently.\u00a0 When you call the herd into the pen, generally a few of the senior cows start the move and the others tag along.\u00a0 That’s the way they’re built.<\/p>\n

But when the senior cows all have brand new babies, they’re not going to leave them unguarded and, by themselves,\u00a0the steers in the group don’t seem to get the message very well.\u00a0 And that can be a problem when you want one of those steers….422, in this case…to come in for his ride to the abattoir.<\/p>\n

After waiting awhile, I took the Gator and found him in the midst of the calves, helping babysit.\u00a0 It’s easy (sometimes) to wrangle an animal with the Gator as you would with a cutting pony.\u00a0 You just come along behind and keep pressure steady.\u00a0 Cows can’t see directly behind themselves, though pretty close, so you just ease off to the left or right and steer the animal (sometimes).<\/p>\n

But this time it worked.\u00a0 422 is now at Blue Ridge meats and we urge you to contact us quickly if you’d like to try our excellent all natural, grass fed beef.\u00a0 Warning:\u00a0 you’ll be hooked!\u00a0 Call us at (540) 364-2090.\u00a0 Or email david@thistlehill.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

….patiently.\u00a0 When you call the herd into the pen, generally a few of the senior cows start the move and the others tag along.\u00a0 That’s the way they’re built. But when the senior cows all have brand new babies, they’re not going to leave them unguarded and, by themselves,\u00a0the steers in the group don’t seem to get the message very well.\u00a0 And that can be a problem when you want one of those steers….422, in this case…to come in for his ride to the abattoir. After waiting awhile, I took the Gator and found him in the midst of the calves, helping babysit.\u00a0 It’s easy (sometimes) to wrangle an animal with the Gator as you would with a cutting pony.\u00a0 You just come along behind and keep pressure steady.\u00a0 Cows can’t see directly behind themselves, though pretty close, so you just ease off to the left or right and steer the animal (sometimes). But this time it worked.\u00a0 422 is now at Blue Ridge meats and we urge you to contact us quickly if you’d like to try our excellent all natural, grass fed beef.\u00a0 Warning:\u00a0 you’ll be hooked!\u00a0 Call us at (540) 364-2090.\u00a0 Or email david@thistlehill.net<\/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-1315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315","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=1315"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1410,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions\/1410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}