{"id":3422,"date":"2014-05-26T06:59:38","date_gmt":"2014-05-26T10:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=3422"},"modified":"2014-05-26T06:59:38","modified_gmt":"2014-05-26T10:59:38","slug":"passing-early-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/passing-early-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Passing the early test&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140525_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-3423\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/20140525_1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"20140525_1\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>&#8230;.as we mentioned before we have used our first <em>Traditional Devon America<\/em> bulls in a limited way both here and at Walker Century Farms in South Carolina.\u00a0 We want to gather data on performance not only with other English cows but various American lines.<\/p>\n<p>This was the result in the early morning yesterday&#8230;a first calf heifer and her brand new bull calf.\u00a0 Again, this guy was born right at the change-over between the two bulls, <em>Churchill<\/em> and <em>Wellington<\/em>.\u00a0 We won&#8217;t know\u00a0for sure who the sire is until we check the DNA.<\/p>\n<p>So far, we can say tentatively that the bulls seem to be excellent heifer sires.\u00a0 The deliveries have been fast and absolutely trouble-free.<\/p>\n<p>The dam is the daughter of a cow we purchased from Bill Roberts at 12 Stones Grasslands farm some years back.\u00a0 Her sire was Don and Heather Minto&#8217;s <em>Watson<\/em>.\u00a0 Thistle Hill is indebted to the earlier work of some great breeders!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.as we mentioned before we have used our first Traditional Devon America bulls in a limited way both here and at Walker Century Farms in South Carolina.\u00a0 We want to gather data on performance not only with other English cows but various American lines. This was the result in the early morning yesterday&#8230;a first calf heifer and her brand new bull calf.\u00a0 Again, this guy was born right at the change-over between the two bulls, Churchill and Wellington.\u00a0 We won&#8217;t know\u00a0for sure who the sire is until we check the DNA. So far, we can say tentatively that the bulls seem to be excellent heifer sires.\u00a0 The deliveries have been fast and absolutely trouble-free. The dam is the daughter of a cow we purchased from Bill Roberts at 12 Stones Grasslands farm some years back.\u00a0 Her sire was Don and Heather Minto&#8217;s Watson.\u00a0 Thistle Hill is indebted to the earlier work of some great breeders!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,66,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bulls","category-churchill","category-traditional-devon"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3422","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=3422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3424,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3422\/revisions\/3424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}