{"id":5386,"date":"2018-11-11T18:42:19","date_gmt":"2018-11-11T23:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=5386"},"modified":"2018-11-12T00:14:03","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T05:14:03","slug":"its-fescue-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/its-fescue-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s fescue weather&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had a good solid freeze last night&#8230;the time of year that fescue pastures come into their own!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ThistlehillFarmsPasture.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5391 aligncenter\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000000; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px;\" title=\"Thistlehill Farm Pasture\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ThistlehillFarmsPasture-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Thistlehill Farm Pasture\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ThistlehillFarmsPasture-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ThistlehillFarmsPasture-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ThistlehillFarmsPasture.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>The main herd has just moved into the next to last paddock.<br \/>\nThe green line is obvious but you can click on the picture to enlarge.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists say that the freezing temperature increases the sugar content considerably.\u00a0 And we\u2019ve never been able to buy hay that tests as well in winter as our fescue.<\/p>\n<p>Not by coincidence this is exactly when we time our calving.\u00a0 The cows are in peak condition and there\u2019s plenty of energy in the ground for nursing and rebreeding&#8230;and no endophyte toxicity around to complicate things.<\/p>\n<p>When the grass runs out we supplement the hay with alfalfa cubes.\u00a0 Now if I could only still skate!<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>David<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a good solid freeze last night&#8230;the time of year that fescue pastures come into their own! The main herd has just moved into the next to last paddock. The green line is obvious but you can click on the picture to enlarge. Scientists say that the freezing temperature increases the sugar content considerably.\u00a0 And we\u2019ve never been able to buy hay that tests as well in winter as our fescue. Not by coincidence this is exactly when we time our calving.\u00a0 The cows are in peak condition and there\u2019s plenty of energy in the ground for nursing and rebreeding&#8230;and no endophyte toxicity around to complicate things. When the grass runs out we supplement the hay with alfalfa cubes.\u00a0 Now if I could only still skate! David<\/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-5386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pasture"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5386","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=5386"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5396,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5386\/revisions\/5396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}