{"id":1577,"date":"2013-01-26T08:56:13","date_gmt":"2013-01-26T13:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=1577"},"modified":"2013-01-26T09:03:01","modified_gmt":"2013-01-26T14:03:01","slug":"dont-cut-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/dont-cut-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t cut back…."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"2013-01-21<\/a>…on the minerals.\u00a0 We’ve noticed in the past week or two that the cows have suddenly increased their intake of minerals.\u00a0 We’re assuming the bitterly cold temperatures have finally done-in the\u00a0fescue grass, which is pretty good feed in the winter.\u00a0 But the cows (or in this case, the young bulls) know best.\u00a0 We’ve also begun to put a bale of hay in front of our growing animals—the bulls and heifers—and it is interesting that they know how to balance their intake between the alfalfa and regular hay.<\/p>\n

As the old saying goes, God taught the cow all it needs to know to be a perfect cow!<\/p>\n

Incidentally, our main herd is till on grass (but with the same cafeteria minerals from 12 Stones).\u00a0 We still have a fairly good stockpile.\u00a0 Will this be the year we finally fulfill Jim Gerrish’s order to “get the hay out”?<\/p>\n

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…on the minerals.\u00a0 We’ve noticed in the past week or two that the cows have suddenly increased their intake of minerals.\u00a0 We’re assuming the bitterly cold temperatures have finally done-in the\u00a0fescue grass, which is pretty good feed in the winter.\u00a0 But the cows (or in this case, the young bulls) know best.\u00a0 We’ve also begun to put a bale of hay in front of our growing animals—the bulls and heifers—and it is interesting that they know how to balance their intake between the alfalfa and regular hay. As the old saying goes, God taught the cow all it needs to know to be a perfect cow! Incidentally, our main herd is till on grass (but with the same cafeteria minerals from 12 Stones).\u00a0 We still have a fairly good stockpile.\u00a0 Will this be the year we finally fulfill Jim Gerrish’s order to “get the hay out”?      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gerrish","category-minerals","category-pasture"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577","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=1577"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1581,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577\/revisions\/1581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}