{"id":5619,"date":"2019-04-15T11:05:19","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T15:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=5619"},"modified":"2019-04-15T11:05:26","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T15:05:26","slug":"a-spring-morn-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/a-spring-morn-update\/","title":{"rendered":"A spring morn update&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u2026.and the grass is a long time coming. We\u2019re keeping the main herd in this sacrifice pasture and continuing to feed hay. Just because we miscalculated we can\u2019t ask the cows to pay for our mistake!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/THSpring.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/THSpring-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Thistle Hill Farm sacrifice pasture\" class=\"wp-image-5623\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/THSpring-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/THSpring-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/THSpring-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/THSpring.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Not only isn\u2019t there enough yet, but this early the grass is \u201cwashy\u201d\u2026not as nutrient rich. On the other hand, you can\u2019t see it but there is a beautiful stand of clover coming along. We estimate in a few weeks we\u2019ll be able to move the herd to begin our serious rotational grazing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The steer calf in the picture is half English\u2026the full English cow sharing the hay was calved at Thistle Hill and is out of the Tilbrook and Cutcombe herds in England.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>David<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026.and the grass is a long time coming. We\u2019re keeping the main herd in this sacrifice pasture and continuing to feed hay. Just because we miscalculated we can\u2019t ask the cows to pay for our mistake! Not only isn\u2019t there enough yet, but this early the grass is \u201cwashy\u201d\u2026not as nutrient rich. On the other hand, you can\u2019t see it but there is a beautiful stand of clover coming along. We estimate in a few weeks we\u2019ll be able to move the herd to begin our serious rotational grazing. The steer calf in the picture is half English\u2026the full English cow sharing the hay was calved at Thistle Hill and is out of the Tilbrook and Cutcombe herds in England. David<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[134,13,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-calves","category-david","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5619","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=5619"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5624,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5619\/revisions\/5624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}