{"id":94161,"date":"2019-05-07T17:34:35","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T23:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/whit-hibbard-to-offer-low-stress-livestock-clinic\/"},"modified":"2019-05-07T17:34:35","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T23:34:35","slug":"whit-hibbard-to-offer-low-stress-livestock-clinic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/whit-hibbard-to-offer-low-stress-livestock-clinic\/","title":{"rendered":"Whit Hibbard to offer low-stress livestock clinic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Whit Hibbard, a fourth-generation Montana rancher and prot\u00e9g\u00e9 of the legendary Bud Williams, will conduct a one-day, intensive workshop on low-stress stockmanship in Dolores.<\/p>\n<p>The daylong class will be held from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Thursday, at the Dolores Public Library, 1002 Railroad Ave. It will be hosted by Tim McGaffic and Ginny Chase Elder of the Nature of Natural.<\/p>\n<p>Hibbard, publisher and editor of the <em>Stockmanship Journal<\/em>, brings an appreciation for scientific rigor, critical thinking, evidence-based rationality and empirical research skills to the study of working livestock. He\u2019s a decades-long student of low-stress stockmanship, horsemanship, ranch roping and facilities design.<\/p>\n<p>Hibbard\u2019s classroom-only workshop in Dolores will focus on the foundations, principles, techniques and applications of low-stress livestock handling, all based on the work of Williams.<\/p>\n<p>Cost for the workshop is $250. For more information, contact Tim McGaffic at 808-936-5749 or <a href=\"mailto:tim@timmcgaffic.com\">tim@timmcgaffic.com<\/a>, or visit <a href=\"https:\/\/besthorsepractices.com\/whit-hibbard-low-stress-livestock-clinic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.besthorsepractices.com\/whit-hibbard-low-stress-livestock-clinic<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hibbard, a fourth-generation Montana rancher and prot\u00e9g\u00e9 of the legendary Bud Williams, will conduct a one-day, intensive workshop on low-stress stockmanship in Dolores. The daylong class will be held from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Thursday, at the Dolores Public Library, 1002 Railroad Ave. It will be hosted by Tim McGaffic and Ginny Chase [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[202],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-94161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-briefs"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94161"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=94161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}