{"id":5127,"date":"2026-02-01T09:04:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T14:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/?p=5127"},"modified":"2026-02-12T10:07:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T15:07:12","slug":"heavy-use-pad-diy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/heavy-use-pad-diy\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy Use Pad DIY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"5132\" src=\"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/img_1528-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5132\" srcset=\"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/img_1528-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/img_1528-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/img_1528-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/img_1528-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/img_1528-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/img_1528-320x240.jpg 320w, https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/img_1528.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo courtesy of Royal Fare Farm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If you raise livestock, chances are you\u2019ve dealt with mud. Every year is different, some more challenging than others when it comes to managing livestock and mud. Here is a great DIY video on building a heavy use pad for feeding or high-traffic areas on your farm or homestead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/euvTtLgaThs?si=aeJKf3S87E3zL8hR\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/euvTtLgaThs?si=aeJKf3S87E3zL8hR<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you raise livestock, chances are you\u2019ve dealt with mud. Every year is different, some more challenging than others when it comes to managing livestock and mud. Here is a great DIY video on building a heavy use pad for feeding or high-traffic areas on your farm or homestead. https:\/\/youtu.be\/euvTtLgaThs?si=aeJKf3S87E3zL8hR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":5132,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[23,419,420,140],"class_list":["post-5127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-farm-management","tag-farmmanagement","tag-mud","tag-pad","tag-rotationalgrazing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9003241321365097,"href":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5127\/revisions\/9003241321365097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}