{"id":6862,"date":"2021-06-05T15:27:24","date_gmt":"2021-06-05T19:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=6862"},"modified":"2021-06-05T15:29:04","modified_gmt":"2021-06-05T19:29:04","slug":"an-early-morning-stroll-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/an-early-morning-stroll-2\/","title":{"rendered":"An early morning stroll&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Thistlehill-Farm-Grazing.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Thistlehill-Farm-Grazing.jpg\" alt=\"Thistlehill Farm Pasture\" class=\"wp-image-6864\" width=\"302\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Thistlehill-Farm-Grazing.jpg 360w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Thistlehill-Farm-Grazing-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 302px) 100vw, 302px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;but with a purpose.&nbsp; This part of the herd has finished strip grazing the East pasture and is moving to fresh grass in the West pasture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is not the entire herd&#8230;just the mamas with their steer and heifer calves.&nbsp; At about eight months we move the bull-calf pairs to an auxiliary field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An important thing to note is how well-behaved our Devon are.&nbsp; Church is taking this picture and they come at his whistle&#8230;no shouting, or whips or dogs.&nbsp; Of course the cows know there\u2019s ice cream at the end of this trail, and though there\u2019s pretty good grass where they\u2019re walking, they want to do as Church asks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>David<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;but with a purpose.&nbsp; This part of the herd has finished strip grazing the East pasture and is moving to fresh grass in the West pasture. This is not the entire herd&#8230;just the mamas with their steer and heifer calves.&nbsp; At about eight months we move the bull-calf pairs to an auxiliary field. An important thing to note is how well-behaved our Devon are.&nbsp; Church is taking this picture and they come at his whistle&#8230;no shouting, or whips or dogs.&nbsp; Of course the cows know there\u2019s ice cream at the end of this trail, and though there\u2019s pretty good grass where they\u2019re walking, they want to do as Church asks. David<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[167,19,13,151,146],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-humphreys","category-cows","category-david","category-strip-grazing","category-thistle-hill-farm"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6862","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=6862"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6868,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6862\/revisions\/6868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}