{"id":1709,"date":"2017-08-21T11:14:24","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T11:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/?p=1709"},"modified":"2017-08-21T11:14:37","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T11:14:37","slug":"natural-happenings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/natural-happenings\/","title":{"rendered":"Natural Happenings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unless you have been in a hole, then you are aware that there will be a solar eclipse today. \u00a0This is a natural happening that is really not that rare. \u00a0But the fact that there will be a total eclipse from coast to coast of the USofA makes it a huge media deal. \u00a0Make sure that you have your goats protected, so that they don&#8217;t stare at the eclipse and become blind. \u00a0I have glasses for all my goats. \u00a0Julie Milligan had some left over eclipse glasses, so I got them and will fit them on the does as I care about their eye sight.<\/p>\n<p>I actually saw a post on Facebook asking if they should protect their horse&#8217;s eyes. \u00a0I also had a sarcastic text from a young Texan remarking about protecting goat eyes. \u00a0One must be a able to find humor in these things.<\/p>\n<p>My does got to deal with a natural happening last evening. \u00a0A hail storm decimated the garden back at the end of May. \u00a0Therefore, weeds had taken over. \u00a0I moved all of the does into the garden yesterday to mow the weeds down. \u00a0This was going to be a two day job to slick this pen up. \u00a0Last night, just as it was getting dark, a storm blew up quickly. \u00a0Little bit of hail, an inch of rain and a pile of wind hit. \u00a0There was nothing on the weather app, OKC news weather and not much warning. \u00a0SO, the does were locked in that garden pen with no shelter. \u00a0Goats don&#8217;t like to be wet. \u00a0They will dry out.<\/p>\n<p>Have a good one and good luck watching that eclipse. \u00a0Productivity won&#8217;t be very high today.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unless you have been in a hole, then you are aware that there will be a solar eclipse today. \u00a0This is a natural happening that is really not that rare. \u00a0But the fact that there will be a total eclipse from coast to coast of the USofA makes it a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1710,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709\/revisions\/1710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}