{"id":836,"date":"2012-06-02T11:02:28","date_gmt":"2012-06-02T15:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=836"},"modified":"2012-06-02T11:02:28","modified_gmt":"2012-06-02T15:02:28","slug":"nobody-tell-wooz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/nobody-tell-wooz\/","title":{"rendered":"Nobody tell Wooz…."},"content":{"rendered":"

…our cows are pampered enough.\u00a0 But in Canada they’re taking it to a high art, believing it helps with production.\u00a0 Dairy cows even have massages and even water beds.\u00a0The story is here:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/offbeat\/story\/2012\/05\/29\/sci-cows-chiropractors.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Of course, the idea isn’t new.\u00a0 Wooz believes talking to our cows has definitely been a factor in their ultra-docility.\u00a0 And we’ve seen studies saying cows perform better when you call them by name.<\/p>\n

Going back a little farther, I remember an uncle playing classical music on a battered old radio for his cows….70 years ago.\u00a0 And of course the lonely cowboy on the trail singing to a nervous herd is the stuff of legend, though it may be he was really trying reassure himself more than the cows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…our cows are pampered enough.\u00a0 But in Canada they’re taking it to a high art, believing it helps with production.\u00a0 Dairy cows even have massages and even water beds.\u00a0The story is here: http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/offbeat\/story\/2012\/05\/29\/sci-cows-chiropractors.html Of course, the idea isn’t new.\u00a0 Wooz believes talking to our cows has definitely been a factor in their ultra-docility.\u00a0 And we’ve seen studies saying cows perform better when you call them by name. Going back a little farther, I remember an uncle playing classical music on a battered old radio for his cows….70 years ago.\u00a0 And of course the lonely cowboy on the trail singing to a nervous herd is the stuff of legend, though it may be he was really trying reassure himself more than the cows.<\/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-836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836","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=836"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":838,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions\/838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}