{"id":3021,"date":"2013-12-20T07:10:29","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T12:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=3021"},"modified":"2013-12-20T07:10:29","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T12:10:29","slug":"milestone-continued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/milestone-continued\/","title":{"rendered":"Milestone (continued)&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/TDA-34.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-3022\" alt=\"TDA 3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/TDA-34-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>&#8230;.we mentioned in the previous post that there are two English heifers being bred in South Carolina (at Walkers Century Farms).\u00a0 This is one, <em>TDA 03<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Her dam, <em>Tilbrook Cashtiller<\/em>&#8230;.who recently passed away&#8230;.swept all the English competitions.\u00a0 Her equally outstanding sire, <em>Cutcombe Jaunty<\/em>, is also no longer with us.<\/p>\n<p>So we have, indeed, accomplished a small part of our goal in saving pure, traditional English genetics.\u00a0 It wasn&#8217;t so much death we have been concerned with as\u00a0the increasing practice on both sides of the Atlantic to dilute the purity of the Devon breed, in the search for some elusive &#8220;super Devon&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>We think they&#8217;re super enough and are content to specialize in the &#8220;real thing&#8221;. We are AI-ing all the heifers to another exceptional, pure English Devon:\u00a0 <em>Ashott Barton Millennium Falcon<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.we mentioned in the previous post that there are two English heifers being bred in South Carolina (at Walkers Century Farms).\u00a0 This is one, TDA 03. Her dam, Tilbrook Cashtiller&#8230;.who recently passed away&#8230;.swept all the English competitions.\u00a0 Her equally outstanding sire, Cutcombe Jaunty, is also no longer with us. So we have, indeed, accomplished a small part of our goal in saving pure, traditional English genetics.\u00a0 It wasn&#8217;t so much death we have been concerned with as\u00a0the increasing practice on both sides of the Atlantic to dilute the purity of the Devon breed, in the search for some elusive &#8220;super Devon&#8221;. We think they&#8217;re super enough and are content to specialize in the &#8220;real thing&#8221;. We are AI-ing all the heifers to another exceptional, pure English Devon:\u00a0 Ashott Barton Millennium Falcon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,24,83,5,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breeding","category-cashtiller","category-england","category-falcon","category-jaunty","category-traditional-devon"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3021","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=3021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3023,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3021\/revisions\/3023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}