{"id":2198,"date":"2013-05-10T21:42:49","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T13:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=2198"},"modified":"2013-05-13T15:52:34","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T07:52:34","slug":"settling-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/10\/settling-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Settling In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/DSC02007.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2192\" alt=\"DSC02007\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/DSC02007-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/DSC02007-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/DSC02007.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>One week after arriving, the goats are settling in and laid down for the first time today. \u00a0I went in at morning tea \u00a0and they both ate some hay then laid down in the sun and out of the wind. \u00a0It only lasted a few minutes, but it was a start.<\/p>\n<p>Midge is still butting Smudge, but not so much and not all the time, they were eating from the same hay pile for a bit this morning and shared some spotted gum leaves I tried on them. \u00a0Just after this picture was taken, Midge charged Smudge in the pen and Smidge went up and over the breakfast bar! \u00a0I don&#8217;t want this to be a regular event, so I hope they sort out the hierarchy soon.<a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130510-020.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2186\" alt=\"20130510 020\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130510-020-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130510-020-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130510-020.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We have discovered that they seem to like emu bush Eremophila even more than Tagasaste and are eating our <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Romulea_rosea\" target=\"_blank\">Guildford Grass<\/a>\u00a0which hopefully won&#8217;t lead to problems. \u00a0It is not good for horses, sheep or cows as it can ball up in the stomach. \u00a0 27 \u00a0yo Bowie had a bit stuck in his throat on Monday, but after a bit of massaging, I was able to clear the obstruction. \u00a0 Goats are renowned for their digestive abilities, so I am not too worried.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One week after arriving, the goats are settling in and laid down for the first time today. \u00a0I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2192,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[24,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goats","category-not-so-wildlife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/DSC02007.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2198"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2209,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198\/revisions\/2209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}