{"id":4705,"date":"2016-02-08T07:52:22","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T12:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=4705"},"modified":"2016-02-08T07:52:22","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T12:52:22","slug":"rodeo-ing-thistle-hill-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/rodeo-ing-thistle-hill-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Rodeo-ing&#8230;.Thistle Hill style&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_1487-e1454935264622.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4706\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-4706\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_1487-e1454935264622-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1487\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>&#8230;.the heavy snow 10 days ago kept us out of the pasture for about a week&#8230;.and so this heifer calf didn&#8217;t get tagged.\u00a0 Mom is descended from Bill Roberts 12 Stones Grasslands Farm herd.\u00a0 The sire is <em>Traditional Devon&#8217;s \u2122 Highwaym<\/em>an.<\/p>\n<p>We finally got the job done when our son-in-law Curt Humphreys did a running jump off the Gator&#8230;and bull-dogged the very feisty calf in the open field.\u00a0 (Maybe the Super Bowl was the inspiration).<\/p>\n<p>This wraps up calving for the year (2015) and because of repeated embryo work, we&#8217;ve fallen farther and farther behind in our hoped-for October calving.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve reached the point now where we may have to switch to Spring calving.<\/p>\n<p>January and February can be very tough months for a cow-calf operation.\u00a0 We did lose one valuable cow this time who slipped on the ice and a calf who froze.\u00a0 Our hills can be treacherous in bad weather, which is why we stay away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.the heavy snow 10 days ago kept us out of the pasture for about a week&#8230;.and so this heifer calf didn&#8217;t get tagged.\u00a0 Mom is descended from Bill Roberts 12 Stones Grasslands Farm herd.\u00a0 The sire is Traditional Devon&#8217;s \u2122 Highwayman. We finally got the job done when our son-in-law Curt Humphreys did a running jump off the Gator&#8230;and bull-dogged the very feisty calf in the open field.\u00a0 (Maybe the Super Bowl was the inspiration). This wraps up calving for the year (2015) and because of repeated embryo work, we&#8217;ve fallen farther and farther behind in our hoped-for October calving.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve reached the point now where we may have to switch to Spring calving. January and February can be very tough months for a cow-calf operation.\u00a0 We did lose one valuable cow this time who slipped on the ice and a calf who froze.\u00a0 Our hills can be treacherous in bad weather, which is why we stay away.<\/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-4705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4705","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=4705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4707,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4705\/revisions\/4707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}