{"id":3563,"date":"2014-07-25T10:15:52","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T14:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=3563"},"modified":"2015-03-29T08:42:47","modified_gmt":"2015-03-29T12:42:47","slug":"piece-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/piece-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"A piece of cake&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/20140725_22.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-3564\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/20140725_22-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"20140725_22\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>&#8230;.the folks at North American Breeders wondered if this young English Devon bull had the experience to mount a bigger steer in the middle of a barn&#8230;no restraints for either.\u00a0 They needn&#8217;t have worried.<\/p>\n<p><em>Traditional Devon&#8217;s\u2122 Highwayman<\/em> acted like he could do it all day&#8230;.but it only took several times to gather enough semen.\u00a0 And a billion per whatever and almost no malformed semen!\u00a0 It&#8217;s what grass fed bulls can produce.\u00a0 Corn fed bulls can&#8217;t match that performance.<\/p>\n<p><em>Highwayman<\/em> is headed for South Carolina and our partners, the Walkers, after breeding several test cows here at Thistle Hill.\u00a0 Their calves are due in a few more months.\u00a0 We want to have a backup semen supply from of all of our English bulls before we put them on the road.<\/p>\n<p>As the vet said about <em>Highwayman<\/em>, &#8220;really an excellent production from such a young bull.\u00a0 Can&#8217;t wait to see what he does when he grows up!&#8221;\u00a0 We can&#8217;t wait to see what he looks like when he grows up!\u00a0 The similarity to his sire, <em>Millennium Falcon<\/em>, increases every day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.the folks at North American Breeders wondered if this young English Devon bull had the experience to mount a bigger steer in the middle of a barn&#8230;no restraints for either.\u00a0 They needn&#8217;t have worried. Traditional Devon&#8217;s\u2122 Highwayman acted like he could do it all day&#8230;.but it only took several times to gather enough semen.\u00a0 And a billion per whatever and almost no malformed semen!\u00a0 It&#8217;s what grass fed bulls can produce.\u00a0 Corn fed bulls can&#8217;t match that performance. Highwayman is headed for South Carolina and our partners, the Walkers, after breeding several test cows here at Thistle Hill.\u00a0 Their calves are due in a few more months.\u00a0 We want to have a backup semen supply from of all of our English bulls before we put them on the road. As the vet said about Highwayman, &#8220;really an excellent production from such a young bull.\u00a0 Can&#8217;t wait to see what he does when he grows up!&#8221;\u00a0 We can&#8217;t wait to see what he looks like when he grows up!\u00a0 The similarity to his sire, Millennium Falcon, increases every day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,97,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bulls","category-highwayman","category-traditional-devon"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3563","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=3563"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4185,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3563\/revisions\/4185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}