{"id":1010,"date":"2013-04-14T20:27:17","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T02:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sylvandale.com\/ranch_stories\/?p=382"},"modified":"2013-04-14T20:27:17","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T02:27:17","slug":"the-cattle-chronicles-first-calf-of-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/?p=1010","title":{"rendered":"The Cattle Chronicles:  First Calf of 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sylvandale.com\/ranch_stories\/the-cattle-chronicles-first-calf-of-2013\/calf-2012-01-mama-010-1-small\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-380\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-380\" alt=\"Calf 2012 01 - mama 010 - 1 small\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sylvandale.com\/ranch_stories\/media\/Calf-2012-01-mama-010-1-small--150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Wednesday, April 10, 2013.<\/p>\n<p>From Linda J:<\/p>\n<p>One sign of spring: \u00a0After helping\u00a0move our fifty-five yearlings across the highway and onto Red Ridge, David J, Promise and I went into the Big Valley where the first little calf was just hours old.\u00a0\u00a0A sweet looking little red heifer with ridiculously long eyelashes, was lying in a little hollow in the dirt.\u00a0 A very bitter wind was blowing, and as we left, I saw her mama actually lie down with her, to keep her warm.\u00a0I&#8217;ve never seen a cow do that before.\u00a0 She&#8217;s a good mama. \u00a0Mango, our cattle manager, was coming to walk them down to water and some better cover, but I hated to think of them out in that cold all night.<\/p>\n<p>PS. From David J:\u00a0 The calf is doing great at 4 days old.\u00a0 Her mama, #010, has stashed her baby in the tall grass in a hollow close to the irrigation ditch.\u00a0 Anytime you approach the calf, Mama comes running and mooing.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t mess with her baby!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, April 10, 2013. From Linda J: One sign of spring: \u00a0After helping\u00a0move our fifty-five yearlings across the highway and onto Red Ridge, David J, Promise and I went into the Big Valley where the first little calf was just hours old.\u00a0\u00a0A sweet looking little red heifer with ridiculously long eyelashes, was lying in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cattle","category-ranch-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmjessup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}