{"id":582,"date":"2013-04-16T11:08:49","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T11:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/?p=454"},"modified":"2013-04-16T11:08:49","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T11:08:49","slug":"limp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/limp\/","title":{"rendered":"Limp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;I go to the east pen and check babies and does. &nbsp;Guess what? &nbsp;A baby is limping. &nbsp;4 weeks old, no prior problems. &nbsp;Last week, Sessions go to wean their goats. &nbsp;Guess what? &nbsp;A 9 week old keeper buck kid is limping. &nbsp;Carrying a hind leg. &nbsp;No prior problems. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; What is the common denominator? &nbsp;Does. &nbsp;Mature does. &nbsp;Think about it. &nbsp;Every farm you go to look at goats has got young goats limping. &nbsp;Why? &nbsp;Mature does. &nbsp;They destroy panels, metal barns, feeders, each other and therefore, it so no stretch of the imagination that they will plow over a kid that comes in their circle. &nbsp;No matter how long they have lived in the same pen, they will still head butt a kid, other does, and stationary objects. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;The south pen has 8 does with kids. &nbsp;I can&#8217;t put any other does or kids in this pen. &nbsp;It is like a pen full of piranhas. &nbsp;If you go in there, you know somethings going to get hit. &nbsp;It is an 11 wire barbed wire pen with an electric fence on the inside. &nbsp;This keeps them from destroying the fence. &nbsp;However, the pipe tubing gates that were new in July are beat to hell. &nbsp;The tin on the shed in this pen gets beat like Rodney King. &nbsp;I&#8217;ve seen one of these piranhas just stand there and repeatedly bang her head into the tin. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Bucks&#8211;they rub a lot, and can flat wear a panel or fence post out but that&#8217;s it. &nbsp;Kids don&#8217;t tear stuff up. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Does. &nbsp;I don&#8217;t like them; but I haven&#8217;t figured out how to have kids without them.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;I go to the east pen and check babies and does. &nbsp;Guess what? &nbsp;A baby is limping. &nbsp;4 weeks old, no prior problems. &nbsp;Last week, Sessions go to wean their goats. &nbsp;Guess what? &nbsp;A 9 week old keeper buck kid is limping. &nbsp;Carrying a hind leg. &nbsp;No prior [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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\/582"}],"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=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}