{"id":1799,"date":"2013-03-16T11:22:26","date_gmt":"2013-03-16T15:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=1799"},"modified":"2013-03-16T11:22:26","modified_gmt":"2013-03-16T15:22:26","slug":"back-to-the-basics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/back-to-the-basics\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to the basics&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Edward Taylor of Vermont, who has become a frequent visitor to this blog, came across an article on rotational grazing that he (and we) think will be helpful to beginners in grass feeding their herd.\u00a0 The article is aimed at dairy farmers, who have even higher nutritional requirements for their animals than most of us, but the principles are the same.<\/p>\n<p>With due credit to <em>Farming Magazine<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.farmingmagazine.com\/article-9188.aspx\">http:\/\/www.farmingmagazine.com\/article-9188.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here at Thistle Hill we are somewhere between rotational and mob grazing.\u00a0 Most times we move our heifers daily&#8230;the cows every other day or every third day.\u00a0 We do still set stock our bulls.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edward Taylor of Vermont, who has become a frequent visitor to this blog, came across an article on rotational grazing that he (and we) think will be helpful to beginners in grass feeding their herd.\u00a0 The article is aimed at dairy farmers, who have even higher nutritional requirements for their animals than most of us, but the principles are the same. With due credit to Farming Magazine: http:\/\/www.farmingmagazine.com\/article-9188.aspx Here at Thistle Hill we are somewhere between rotational and mob grazing.\u00a0 Most times we move our heifers daily&#8230;the cows every other day or every third day.\u00a0 We do still set stock our bulls. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pasture"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799","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=1799"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1801,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799\/revisions\/1801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}