{"id":1890,"date":"2013-04-02T17:08:50","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T21:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=1890"},"modified":"2013-04-02T17:08:50","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T21:08:50","slug":"spring-is-in-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/spring-is-in-the-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring is in the air&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_20130402_162523.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1891\" alt=\"IMG_20130402_162523\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_20130402_162523-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>&#8230;37 degree air, but nevertheless.\u00a0 At Thistle Hill we decided today to declare Spring has arrived.\u00a0\u00a0 We announced the news this morning to a line-up of our young bulls.<\/p>\n<p>That means some new assignments.\u00a0 For instance, Green Field, winter home for ease of taking care of our young bulls, is now reduced to six.\u00a0 Their buddies have been detached for duty at\u00a0satellite pastures about 5 miles away.\u00a0 One bull is already on the job, breeding some young heifers for a farm in South Carolina.\u00a0 And another will be sent to still another satellite pasture to romance another group of heifers.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the temperature, green has begun to show in all the pastures.\u00a0 In another week, we&#8217;ll run the cows quickly through the fields and then settle down into our own version of mob grazing.\u00a0 (Really just rotational grazing in very small paddocks.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &#8230;37 degree air, but nevertheless.\u00a0 At Thistle Hill we decided today to declare Spring has arrived.\u00a0\u00a0 We announced the news this morning to a line-up of our young bulls. That means some new assignments.\u00a0 For instance, Green Field, winter home for ease of taking care of our young bulls, is now reduced to six.\u00a0 Their buddies have been detached for duty at\u00a0satellite pastures about 5 miles away.\u00a0 One bull is already on the job, breeding some young heifers for a farm in South Carolina.\u00a0 And another will be sent to still another satellite pasture to romance another group of heifers. Despite the temperature, green has begun to show in all the pastures.\u00a0 In another week, we&#8217;ll run the cows quickly through the fields and then settle down into our own version of mob grazing.\u00a0 (Really just rotational grazing in very small paddocks.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,31,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bulls","category-mob-grazing","category-pasture"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1890","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=1890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1892,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1890\/revisions\/1892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}