{"id":858,"date":"2014-06-20T03:23:07","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T03:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/?p=730"},"modified":"2014-06-20T03:23:07","modified_gmt":"2014-06-20T03:23:07","slug":"end-of-an-era-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/end-of-an-era-1\/","title":{"rendered":"End of an Era"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;I don&#8217;t know how old she is. &nbsp;I just know that Verlin came to Kelln Livestock in 2006. &nbsp;She was several years old at that point. &nbsp;She had been working in a goat dairy getting hand milked to provide milk for children that needed goat milk and\/or milk for show pigs. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Kela and I needed a goat to take on some trips &amp; quads in the spring of &#8217;06. &nbsp;Verlin was offered to us and she was a savior. &nbsp;She raised those kids and then some more. &nbsp;Next spring, she had a pair of wether kids. &nbsp;Then the next year quad wethers. &nbsp;That year of 2008, she raised those 4 kids plus 13 others. &nbsp;She developed a bad attitude by Septemeber. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Now, in 2013, she raised her twin kids, but half of her udder was done. &nbsp;She didn&#8217;t like helping anymore and she became very destructive. &nbsp;She was fat and in excellent health. &nbsp;But I hauled her off&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; However, she had a Rainman doe kid last year that will get bred in the very near future. &nbsp;Plus she had a Rumour Has It doe kid this year that will go into production next spring. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Here&#8217;s to Verlin the dairy goat. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;I don&#8217;t know how old she is. &nbsp;I just know that Verlin came to Kelln Livestock in 2006. &nbsp;She was several years old at that point. &nbsp;She had been working in a goat dairy getting hand milked to provide milk for children that needed goat milk and\/or milk [&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\/858"}],"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=858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kellnlivestock.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}