{"id":1918,"date":"2013-04-07T07:31:34","date_gmt":"2013-04-07T11:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=1918"},"modified":"2013-04-07T07:33:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-07T11:33:00","slug":"getting-to-know-you-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/getting-to-know-you-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting to know you&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_20130405_161617.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1919\" alt=\"IMG_20130405_161617\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_20130405_161617-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>&#8230;.our first English bull, <em>TDA Churchill<\/em>, is introduced to that mysterious creature&#8230;a female.\u00a0 In this case, this heifer is a Devon-Senepol cross. \u00a0This will take some getting used to.<\/p>\n<p><em>Churchill<\/em> is still young&#8230;just 17 months&#8230;and so we&#8217;ve put him in a pasture with just three females.\u00a0 They were all born late in our normal calving season, too late to be bred with the other heifers in their class.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_20130405_161651.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1920\" alt=\"IMG_20130405_161651\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_20130405_161651-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>So <em>Churchill<\/em> has his own little harem to begin his education.\u00a0 He&#8217;s an extremely gentle bull, even for a Devon.\u00a0 Moderate-sized but beautifully proportioned.\u00a0 Exactly what the three Devon breeders who make up Traditional Devon America hoped for when they began their &#8220;prospecting&#8221; among English herds.<\/p>\n<p>This month we&#8217;ll be implanting more embryos at Doyle Unruh&#8217;s farm in Georgia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.our first English bull, TDA Churchill, is introduced to that mysterious creature&#8230;a female.\u00a0 In this case, this heifer is a Devon-Senepol cross. \u00a0This will take some getting used to. Churchill is still young&#8230;just 17 months&#8230;and so we&#8217;ve put him in a pasture with just three females.\u00a0 They were all born late in our normal calving season, too late to be bred with the other heifers in their class. So Churchill has his own little harem to begin his education.\u00a0 He&#8217;s an extremely gentle bull, even for a Devon.\u00a0 Moderate-sized but beautifully proportioned.\u00a0 Exactly what the three Devon breeders who make up Traditional Devon America hoped for when they began their &#8220;prospecting&#8221; among English herds. This month we&#8217;ll be implanting more embryos at Doyle Unruh&#8217;s farm in Georgia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,24,36,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bulls","category-england","category-traditional-devon","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1918"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1924,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918\/revisions\/1924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}