{"id":4510,"date":"2015-10-27T07:16:19","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T11:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=4510"},"modified":"2015-10-27T16:09:55","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T20:09:55","slug":"the-alpha-and-the-omega","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/the-alpha-and-the-omega\/","title":{"rendered":"The Alpha and the Omega&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-26-18.51.56.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-4512\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-26-18.51.56-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"2015-10-26 18.51.56\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>&#8230;.it was one of those days that makes raising Devon both a joy and so fulfilling.\u00a0 We had checked the young mother-to-be a few hours earlier.\u00a0 Nothing.\u00a0 After a few errands, we went back out&#8230;.and there was the latest addition to our herd.\u00a0 The hour or so old heifer cleaned up and waiting to be tagged.\u00a0 The was mother&#8217;s first&#8230;.and she handled it like she had read the book.<\/p>\n<p>The dam is a granddaughter of a young cow we bought years ago from\u00a0the Tranthams&#8217; Leonoir Creek\u00a0Farm.\u00a0 The sire was an English pairing: Ivan Rowe&#8217;s <em>Snowdrop<\/em> and Shiamala Comer&#8217;s <em>Falcon<\/em>.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/20151026_095601-e1445944274197.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-4513\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/20151026_095601-e1445944274197-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"20151026_095601\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just a few miles away, two of our bull calves&#8230;approaching\u00a0 two years of age&#8230;were getting their travel papers.\u00a0 They&#8217;ll be shipped to new homes in a few days.\u00a0 And that completes the cycle.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photos by Duane Ard<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.it was one of those days that makes raising Devon both a joy and so fulfilling.\u00a0 We had checked the young mother-to-be a few hours earlier.\u00a0 Nothing.\u00a0 After a few errands, we went back out&#8230;.and there was the latest addition to our herd.\u00a0 The hour or so old heifer cleaned up and waiting to be tagged.\u00a0 The was mother&#8217;s first&#8230;.and she handled it like she had read the book. The dam is a granddaughter of a young cow we bought years ago from\u00a0the Tranthams&#8217; Leonoir Creek\u00a0Farm.\u00a0 The sire was an English pairing: Ivan Rowe&#8217;s Snowdrop and Shiamala Comer&#8217;s Falcon.\u00a0 Just a few miles away, two of our bull calves&#8230;approaching\u00a0 two years of age&#8230;were getting their travel papers.\u00a0 They&#8217;ll be shipped to new homes in a few days.\u00a0 And that completes the cycle. Photos by Duane Ard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4510","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=4510"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4517,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4510\/revisions\/4517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}