{"id":284,"date":"2011-10-07T20:53:55","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T12:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fairharvest.com.au\/?p=284"},"modified":"2013-02-10T07:11:45","modified_gmt":"2013-02-09T23:11:45","slug":"around-the-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fairharvest.com.au\/around-the-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"Around the Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The<\/a>The girls are pregnant!<\/h2>\n

Getting your house cow pregnant is always a hassle, with just a few cows we have tried all sorts of arrangements from borrowing a bull (not that simple) to floating our house cow to a Jersey farm (farmers often don\u2019t want the responsibility of another cow) to AI (very expensive). All of these methods are reliant on working in a limited time period.<\/p>\n

So this year we tried a new plan\u2026..\u2019Bobby the Bull\u201d we got Bobby as a three day old (unwanted by-product) calf and hand raised him, hoping he would get to work while he was young and manageable, then move him on (into the freezer).<\/p>\n

Well Bobby did the job! He\u2019s only 8 months old and he\u2019s got the girls pregnant! What\u2019s even better (for Bobby) is instead of going to the freezer he\u2019s going to Merrie Bee Organic Farm along with Trixie our nice house cow. In the meantime we\u2019ll get another little boy to hand raise for next year.<\/p>\n

This may all seem a bit callous but if you want a house cow you have to deal with the boys (at least 50% of your calves will be little bulls), this means selling them for beef or eating them yourselves, it\u2019s the few very lucky ones that live to a ripe old age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We\u2019ve got all sorts of projects happening around the farm including milking cows, olive trees, plantation timber and building projects. Watch this corner to find up what we\u2019re up to and how you can get involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4157,"featured_media":333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[21],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.fairharvest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2011\/09\/395-e1320642598250.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fairharvest.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fairharvest.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fairharvest.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fairharvest.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fairharvest.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fairharvest.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fairharvest.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fairharvest.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fairharvest.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fairharvest.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}