{"id":99878,"date":"2025-12-14T13:17:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T18:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/?p=99878"},"modified":"2025-12-20T15:33:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T20:33:48","slug":"avoiding-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/avoiding-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Avoiding Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There have been more times than I care to admit where I did something dumb while working our Dexter cattle. In those situations I am always grateful we have chosen to raise Dexters. Even if I sustain an injury, it is much less severe than if I had been handling a full size cow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having the proper handling equipment, and having a \u201cno crazy cows\u201d policy on our farm has helped us avoid a lot of injuries. Here is a great article on cattle related injuries to farmers. Being informed and informed and aware goes a long way to keeping safe! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.drovers.com\/news\/beef-production\/prevent-farm-and-ranch-injuries-cattle#:~:text=One%20study%20reported%20261%20attacks,the%20lower%20and%20upper%20extremities.\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have been more times than I care to admit where I did something dumb while working our Dexter cattle. In those situations I am always grateful we have chosen to raise Dexters. Even if I sustain an injury, it is much less severe than if I had been handling a full size cow. Having [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":99877,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[470,653,440],"class_list":["post-99878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-farm-management","tag-farm-management","tag-farming-risks","tag-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99878","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=99878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99879,"href":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99878\/revisions\/99879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}