{"id":732,"date":"2014-12-07T09:01:24","date_gmt":"2014-12-07T16:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/?p=732"},"modified":"2014-12-07T09:01:24","modified_gmt":"2014-12-07T16:01:24","slug":"western-bison-association-meeting-just-returned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/western-bison-association-meeting-just-returned\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Bison Association meeting!  Just returned&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Nebi-an-orphaned-buffalo-calf-that-we-raised-on-bottles-of-goats-milk..jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-709\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Nebi-an-orphaned-buffalo-calf-that-we-raised-on-bottles-of-goats-milk..jpg\" alt=\"Nebi, an orphaned buffalo calf that we raised on bottles of goat's milk.\" width=\"200\" height=\"154\" \/><\/a>Hi All, \u00a0we just returned from the Western Bison Association Meetings in Ogden, Utah. \u00a0This is our favorite conference. \u00a0The WBA is filled with people who genuinely care about the health, safety, and happiness of the buffalo in their herds. \u00a0One of the biggest disease threats right now is an illness called <em>mycoplasma bovis.<\/em> \u00a0As archaeologists, we can trace this bison disease back to about 17,000 years ago in North America to an ancient ancestor of modern bison,\u00a0<em>Bison priscus.<\/em>\u00a0 So, it&#8217;s been around for a while. \u00a0Unfortunately a vaccine for it has not. \u00a0Just last year, the bison industry developed the first ever bison vaccine for this disease. \u00a0Now if we could just get people to use it! \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Also, just a reminder, only two days left to register for a chance to win a copy of PEOPLE OF THE MOON at Goodreads.com. \u00a0Just go to Goodreads, do a search for the title, and below the image of the cover, you will see ENTER TO WIN. \u00a0Good luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Hi All, \u00a0we just returned from the Western Bison Association Meetings in Ogden, Utah. \u00a0This is our favorite conference. \u00a0The WBA is filled with people who genuinely care about the health, safety, and happiness of the buffalo in their herds. \u00a0One of the biggest disease threats right now is an illness called mycoplasma bovis. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":733,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions\/733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}