{"id":95,"date":"2016-04-09T17:15:02","date_gmt":"2016-04-10T00:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nrgcbc.ca\/sheepfeeding\/?p=95"},"modified":"2016-04-09T17:15:02","modified_gmt":"2016-04-10T00:15:02","slug":"kootenay-pass-sheep-feeding-april-9th-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nrgcbc.ca\/sheepfeeding\/kootenay-pass-sheep-feeding-april-9th-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Kootenay Pass Sheep Feeding April 9th 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some surprises are nice.<\/p>\n<p>Since the beginning of March, when we had 29 sheep, numbers have increased.<\/p>\n<p>2 ewes, a young ram and a lamb came in. This gave us a total of 7 lambs. The biggest crop of lambs in quite a few years.<\/p>\n<p>About the 20th of March a single ewe with a lamb arrived. They were very skittish and took several days to adjust to the people. With 8 lambs and a total of at least 35 sheep, no losses to roads or predators since early December, we feel that it&#8217;s a good start to the new year.<\/p>\n<p>The only bad news is that a mature ewe was seen near the domestic sheep at Stag Leap ranch.<\/p>\n<p>Disease transfer from domestic sheep is an ever present danger and has been responsible for the loss of up to 80 % of some other lower BC herds in the last year.<\/p>\n<p>The sheep will be moving away to summer pastures very soon and new lambs will be born starting the middle of May.<\/p>\n<p>Have a nice summer,<\/p>\n<p>Bob Vliet<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nrgcbc.ca\/sheepfeeding\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/06\/021720100959.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-37\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nrgcbc.ca\/sheepfeeding\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/06\/021720100959-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"021720100959\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.nrgcbc.ca\/sheepfeeding\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/06\/021720100959-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.nrgcbc.ca\/sheepfeeding\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/06\/021720100959-600x450.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.nrgcbc.ca\/sheepfeeding\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/06\/021720100959-200x150.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.nrgcbc.ca\/sheepfeeding\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/06\/021720100959.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some surprises are nice. Since the beginning of March, when we had 29 sheep, numbers have increased. 2 ewes, a young ram and a lamb came in. This gave us [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nrgcbc.ca\/sheepfeeding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nrgcbc.ca\/sheepfeeding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nrgcbc.ca\/sheepfeeding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nrgcbc.ca\/sheepfeeding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nrgcbc.ca\/sheepfeeding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.nrgcbc.ca\/sheepfeeding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96,"href":"http:\/\/www.nrgcbc.ca\/sheepfeeding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions\/96"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nrgcbc.ca\/sheepfeeding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nrgcbc.ca\/sheepfeeding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nrgcbc.ca\/sheepfeeding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}