{"id":2550,"date":"2013-08-27T10:55:40","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T14:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=2550"},"modified":"2013-08-27T10:55:40","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T14:55:40","slug":"mission-accomplished-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/mission-accomplished-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission accomplished&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130824_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2551\" alt=\"20130824_2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130824_2-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Traditional Devon&#8217;s English bull, <em>Churchill<\/em>, returns to his Thistle Hill pasture after an extremely successful stay at North American Breeders for collection.<\/p>\n<p>The tech there called him &#8220;fantastic&#8221;&#8230;and we agree.\u00a0 In fact, grass fed bulls generally are far more fertile than grain fed.\u00a0 With all the news reports about declining sperm counts in western males, we&#8217;ve wondered whether the high level of corn fructose in young diets is partly to blame.<\/p>\n<p><em>Churchill<\/em> is not yet two.\u00a0 He&#8217;s been used in a limited way here at Thistle Hill.\u00a0 His brother, <em>Wellington<\/em>, will be traveling to South Carolina in another month to be tried on our partners&#8217; Walker Century Farms herd.<\/p>\n<p>And no, semen is not yet for sale.<\/p>\n<p>Tradition Devon is a joint venture of three Devon farms:\u00a0 Thistle Hill, Walker Century Farms and Folly Farm in New York.\u00a0 The goal is to preserve pure English Devon genetics&#8230;and to broaden the genetic pool available here in the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traditional Devon&#8217;s English bull, Churchill, returns to his Thistle Hill pasture after an extremely successful stay at North American Breeders for collection. The tech there called him &#8220;fantastic&#8221;&#8230;and we agree.\u00a0 In fact, grass fed bulls generally are far more fertile than grain fed.\u00a0 With all the news reports about declining sperm counts in western males, we&#8217;ve wondered whether the high level of corn fructose in young diets is partly to blame. Churchill is not yet two.\u00a0 He&#8217;s been used in a limited way here at Thistle Hill.\u00a0 His brother, Wellington, will be traveling to South Carolina in another month to be tried on our partners&#8217; Walker Century Farms herd. And no, semen is not yet for sale. Tradition Devon is a joint venture of three Devon farms:\u00a0 Thistle Hill, Walker Century Farms and Folly Farm in New York.\u00a0 The goal is to preserve pure English Devon genetics&#8230;and to broaden the genetic pool available here in the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,66,24,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bulls","category-churchill","category-england","category-wellington"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550","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=2550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2552,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550\/revisions\/2552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}