{"id":14339,"date":"2017-02-13T14:55:44","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T21:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ruffledfeathersandspilledmilk.com\/?p=14339"},"modified":"2017-02-22T18:12:04","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T01:12:04","slug":"livestock-rotation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ruffledfeathersandspilledmilk.com\/?p=14339","title":{"rendered":"Livestock Rotation."},"content":{"rendered":"

Let’s say your garden needs some new layers of compost in preparation for spring and summer crops. \u00a0Ideally, this compost comes from the barnyard, where manure has been mellowing for months. \u00a0 It’s just waiting for someone to haul it to the garden.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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In addition to being a great opportunity for \u00a0a 4 hour Shoulder, Back, and Leg Day workout, this is an excellent time to rotate your livestock.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here how it’s done properly.
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1. \u00a0At the very first shovelful, the chickens arrive to grab worms, grubs, and grain tidbits.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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2. \u00a0With the first layer of leaf debris removed and soil chunks broken up by scratching chickens, the sheep and goats move in to scarf up exposed roots and acorns.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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3. \u00a0When a large enough area has been excavated and cleaned up by the chickens and the goats and sheep, the Great Pyrs move in for a nice, cool nap in the dirt.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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If done correctly, you will now have 2 raised beds full of compost and all of your livestock rotated. \u00a0So you can now crawl into the house for chocolate and glucosamine.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Only 7 raised beds left to go…..<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let’s say your garden needs some new layers of compost in preparation for spring and summer crops. \u00a0Ideally, this compost comes from the barnyard, where manure has been mellowing for months. \u00a0 It’s just waiting for someone to haul it to the garden. In addition to being a great opportunity for \u00a0a 4 hour Shoulder, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ruffledfeathersandspilledmilk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ruffledfeathersandspilledmilk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ruffledfeathersandspilledmilk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ruffledfeathersandspilledmilk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ruffledfeathersandspilledmilk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14339"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/ruffledfeathersandspilledmilk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14397,"href":"http:\/\/ruffledfeathersandspilledmilk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14339\/revisions\/14397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ruffledfeathersandspilledmilk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ruffledfeathersandspilledmilk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ruffledfeathersandspilledmilk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}