{"id":2321,"date":"2012-06-14T14:29:43","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T18:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=2321"},"modified":"2012-06-14T14:29:43","modified_gmt":"2012-06-14T18:29:43","slug":"our-younger-calves-are-now-out-to-pasture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2012\/06\/14\/our-younger-calves-are-now-out-to-pasture\/","title":{"rendered":"Our younger calves are now out to pasture"},"content":{"rendered":"

We turned our eight-month-old calves out to pasture on the old horse pasture a few days ago and we love watching them munch happily on the orchard grass and clover.\u00a0 What a satisfying feeling! We remember when that pasture was nothing put brush and popple trees three years ago!
\nMeanwhile, I’m finishing planting the garden and getting ready to travel to the MREA Fair<\/a> in Custer, Wisconsin, on Thursday.\u00a0 I’ll be hanging out at the BHM<\/em> booth so any of you that get the chance, please stop by and say hi.<\/p>\n

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Will’s busy building pig houses for our two gilts who are going to have baby pigs pretty soon.\u00a0 We have to get up fencing on the pasture, as well, so we’re hoping that they won’t farrow early!<\/p>\n

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Last week, we went to a friend’s dairy and bought five baby Holstein bull calves who were from a week old to only three days old. These folks have the nicest calves I’ve ever seen, anywhere!\u00a0 We’ll be raising them on the bottle until weaned.\u00a0 We’re developing a decent market for beef quarters and halves, cut and wrapped.\u00a0 It’s a good deal for the buyer as they get good, naturally-raised farm beef for the price of store (yucky!) hamburger.\u00a0 And it’s a good deal for us too as we get more per pound than if we sold the butcher-sized calves at the auction barn.\u00a0 In today’s sagging economy, anything we can do that is moral, legal, and puts a few dollars back into our homestead is a good thing, indeed!\u00a0 Besides, both Will and I enjoy livestock.<\/p>\n

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We turned our eight-month-old calves out to pasture on the old horse pasture a few days ago and we love watching them munch happily on the orchard grass and clover.\u00a0 What a satisfying feeling! We remember when that pasture was nothing put brush and popple trees three years ago! Meanwhile, I’m finishing planting the garden […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}