{"id":4121,"date":"2015-02-22T11:31:28","date_gmt":"2015-02-22T16:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=4121"},"modified":"2015-02-23T10:08:38","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T15:08:38","slug":"like-grandma-like-grandson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/like-grandma-like-grandson\/","title":{"rendered":"Like grandma…like grandson…."},"content":{"rendered":"

….as regular readers know, we’ve been checking the performance of the animals we’ve imported from England via embryo transplants.<\/p>\n

Our leading lady in England, of course, is Tilbrook Cashtiller<\/em>…the three-time national grand champion bred by Gavin Hunter.\u00a0 She’s also the dam four years running of the\u00a0top-priced bulls in the Devon Society’s annual sales.\u00a0 Her son,\u00a0raised here at Thistle Hill, is TDA Churchill<\/em>.\u00a0 And now, at just over two months of age,\u00a0we noticed Cashtiller’s grandson, Thistle Hill Merlin, drudging through yesterday’s blizzard, alongside his mom.\u00a0 She’s Thistle Hill’s Magical 64, <\/em>who in turn is a daughter of Thistle Hill Magic<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Are we on to something?\u00a0 You be the judge.\u00a0 The picture is “soft”….it’s part of a bigger picture of the herd…from a distance.<\/p>\n

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….as regular readers know, we’ve been checking the performance of the animals we’ve imported from England via embryo transplants. Our leading lady in England, of course, is Tilbrook Cashtiller…the three-time national grand champion bred by Gavin Hunter.\u00a0 She’s also the dam four years running of the\u00a0top-priced bulls in the Devon Society’s annual sales.\u00a0 Her son,\u00a0raised here at Thistle Hill, is TDA Churchill.\u00a0 And now, at just over two months of age,\u00a0we noticed Cashtiller’s grandson, Thistle Hill Merlin, drudging through yesterday’s blizzard, alongside his mom.\u00a0 She’s Thistle Hill’s Magical 64, who in turn is a daughter of Thistle Hill Magic. Are we on to something?\u00a0 You be the judge.\u00a0 The picture is “soft”….it’s part of a bigger picture of the herd…from a distance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bulls","category-cashtiller"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4121","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=4121"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4129,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4121\/revisions\/4129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}