{"id":2403,"date":"2013-07-13T16:32:16","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T20:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=2403"},"modified":"2013-07-13T16:32:16","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T20:32:16","slug":"cashtiller-keeps-on-giving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/cashtiller-keeps-on-giving\/","title":{"rendered":"Cashtiller keeps on giving…."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"photo\"<\/a>….it was love at first sight when I first saw Tilbrook Cashtiller<\/em> in the yard at Gavin Hunter’s Tilbrook Grange.\u00a0 She became the foundation cow for a partnership with two other breeders that we named Traditional Devon America.<\/p>\n

TDA now has seven of her cows on the ground here in the States thanks to embryo transplant; three more are on the way; and eight embryos remain in the canister.<\/p>\n

Cashtiller is 13 years old now and this is her latest calf, a heifer.\u00a0 Gavin says this one was a little tougher for her and he’s not sure he wants to breed her again.\u00a0 As Wooz commented, “This is what she is meant to do; all she wants to do.”<\/p>\n

I think I agree. I have seen mama cows on the ground, nursing a calf with her last breath.\u00a0 The baby even continuing to nurse after its mother is gone.\u00a0 I think that was a far happier cow at the end than almost all others are permitted to enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

….it was love at first sight when I first saw Tilbrook Cashtiller in the yard at Gavin Hunter’s Tilbrook Grange.\u00a0 She became the foundation cow for a partnership with two other breeders that we named Traditional Devon America. TDA now has seven of her cows on the ground here in the States thanks to embryo transplant; three more are on the way; and eight embryos remain in the canister. Cashtiller is 13 years old now and this is her latest calf, a heifer.\u00a0 Gavin says this one was a little tougher for her and he’s not sure he wants to breed her again.\u00a0 As Wooz commented, “This is what she is meant to do; all she wants to do.” I think I agree. I have seen mama cows on the ground, nursing a calf with her last breath.\u00a0 The baby even continuing to nurse after its mother is gone.\u00a0 I think that was a far happier cow at the end than almost all others are permitted to enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,19,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cashtiller","category-cows","category-england"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2403","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=2403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2405,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2403\/revisions\/2405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}