{"id":3400,"date":"2014-05-20T06:46:24","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T10:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=3400"},"modified":"2014-05-20T06:48:17","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T10:48:17","slug":"another-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/another-milestone\/","title":{"rendered":"Another milestone&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140519_4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-3402\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140519_4-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"20140519_4\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>&#8230;another successful experiment.<\/p>\n<p>We decided to try our English traditional Devon bulls on a few of our heifers&#8230;here at Thistle Hill and in South Carolina.\u00a0 And yesterday afternoon, without any warning, came the result:\u00a0 a heifer calf by a fairly small heifer.\u00a0 Delivered without problem.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is we&#8217;re not sure which bull is the sire:\u00a0 <em>Churchill<\/em> or <em>Wellington<\/em>.\u00a0 Both were with her<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140519_171718.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-3403\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140519_171718-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"20140519_171718\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0right at the conception date.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll let DNA sort that out.\u00a0 Meanwhile, Mom was busy holding court all afternoon&#8230;.introducing the curiosity to the other heifers who are waiting their turn.<\/p>\n<p>We liked that the dark ruby red coloring of the English animals prevailed.\u00a0 This was a thoroughly photographed baby.<\/p>\n<p><em>Top photo by Wooz; bottom by Duane Ard.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;another successful experiment. We decided to try our English traditional Devon bulls on a few of our heifers&#8230;here at Thistle Hill and in South Carolina.\u00a0 And yesterday afternoon, without any warning, came the result:\u00a0 a heifer calf by a fairly small heifer.\u00a0 Delivered without problem. The problem is we&#8217;re not sure which bull is the sire:\u00a0 Churchill or Wellington.\u00a0 Both were with her\u00a0right at the conception date.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll let DNA sort that out.\u00a0 Meanwhile, Mom was busy holding court all afternoon&#8230;.introducing the curiosity to the other heifers who are waiting their turn. We liked that the dark ruby red coloring of the English animals prevailed.\u00a0 This was a thoroughly photographed baby. Top photo by Wooz; bottom by Duane Ard.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,66,24,1,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bulls","category-churchill","category-england","category-uncategorized","category-wellington"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3400","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=3400"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3407,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3400\/revisions\/3407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}