{"id":461,"date":"2012-09-10T14:55:34","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T14:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/?p=315"},"modified":"2012-09-10T14:55:34","modified_gmt":"2012-09-10T14:55:34","slug":"big-weekend-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/big-weekend-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Busy weekend.&nbsp; Had to take Duke to the Ellis County livestock judging contest.&nbsp; Then I headed home and hauled crap out of the barn all afternoon.&nbsp; Scrap metal and trash.&nbsp; Big Bill had to take a wether to Stillwater.&nbsp; Fighting a kidney stone that has got all the vets stumped.&nbsp; We knew this was a good wether, but this calamity is proving us right.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Sunday was a busy day.&nbsp; Had four sets of goats show up to get hoof work, evaluations, showmanship, etc.&nbsp; I don&#8217;t normally have very many doe kids to look at, but there was two different sets on Sunday and both sets were way good.&nbsp; There was some really interesting doe kids in those show strings.&nbsp; Also saw some nice wethers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With the weather finally cooling off, goats will start converting feed better.&nbsp; If you are feeding&nbsp;hard and not exercising, they will start getting soft.&nbsp;&nbsp;Now, that the temps have dropped, I&#8217;m trying to decide when to drill some grazing material.&nbsp;&nbsp;I&#8217;m going to sow triticale, austrian winter peas and turnips.&nbsp; Soil temps have been too high and the&nbsp;grasshoppers are thick.&nbsp; I did have a guy tell me how to keep grasshoppers from eating the outside rounds of his young wheat.&nbsp; He just isn&#8217;t going to drill any outside rounds.&nbsp; That ought to stop &#8217;em.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Busy weekend.&nbsp; Had to take Duke to the Ellis County livestock judging contest.&nbsp; Then I headed home and hauled crap out of the barn all afternoon.&nbsp; Scrap metal and trash.&nbsp; Big Bill had to take a wether to Stillwater.&nbsp; Fighting a kidney stone that has got all the vets [&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\/461"}],"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=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}