{"id":3208,"date":"2013-05-09T03:00:13","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T07:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=3208"},"modified":"2013-05-09T03:00:13","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T07:00:13","slug":"all-of-our-spring-baby-goats-have-arrived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2013\/05\/09\/all-of-our-spring-baby-goats-have-arrived\/","title":{"rendered":"All of our spring baby goats have arrived"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Baby-goats.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3209\" alt=\"Baby-goats\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Baby-goats.gif\" width=\"446\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAnd a few days after arrival, we face the not-so-nice job of disbudding all of those cute kids. As horns are SO dangerous to both the goats and people (due to accidental bumps), we never leave horns on any of our goats. And it&#8217;s really paid off. Yes, it&#8217;s a stinky job with burning hair and not fun as the babies holler. But in minutes, they are nursing and in an hour they are playing like nothing unusual ever happened.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Baby-goats-2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3210\" alt=\"Baby-goats-2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Baby-goats-2.gif\" width=\"446\" height=\"381\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI&#8217;m always glad that job&#8217;s over. But we still have another unpleasant one &#8212; castrating the baby pigs. If it doesn&#8217;t rain, we&#8217;ll be doing that in a few minutes. Again, unpleasant but necessary. (Boar meat often has a nasty smell on cooking as well as a bad taste called &#8220;boar taint.&#8221;) Buyers don&#8217;t want to buy baby boar pigs.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m running around today doing all those odd jobs I won&#8217;t be able to do once I have my surgery tomorrow. Whew! &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And a few days after arrival, we face the not-so-nice job of disbudding all of those cute kids. As horns are SO dangerous to both the goats and people (due to accidental bumps), we never leave horns on any of our goats. And it&#8217;s really paid off. Yes, it&#8217;s a stinky job with burning hair [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3208"}],"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=3208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}