{"id":4543,"date":"2015-11-01T06:50:50","date_gmt":"2015-11-01T11:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=4543"},"modified":"2015-11-02T15:01:32","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T20:01:32","slug":"a-first-time-for-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/a-first-time-for-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"A first time for everything…."},"content":{"rendered":"

….Traditional Devon’s\u2122 Churchill<\/em> presented us with\"20151029_103723\"<\/a>\u00a0a new problem the other day.\u00a0 He had been dehorned several years ago but for some reason the “stump” had splintered and we found him in the pasture this way…an ugly sight but he didn’t seem particularly disturbed.<\/p>\n

We first thought one of two younger bulls had gotten into a “head-to-head” with him, testing his strength.\u00a0 But they seemed properly differential.\u00a0 It was also possible he had been scratching his head on a tree, and broke what was left of his horn.\u00a0 In any event, the wound was too serious to leave untreated.<\/p>\n

\"20151029_103331\"<\/a>So veterinarian Monica O’Brien clipped off the broken ends and then cauterized the site.\u00a0 Again, not pretty….we’ll write if you want the details…but Churchill<\/em> took it calmly.<\/p>\n

We’ve put him in a pen by himself now….hoping that he won’t reopen the wound in a jousting match with one of the other cows.\u00a0 But we can’t be sure that, if the site starts to itch, he won’t rub it against a tree or a post.\u00a0 Wonder if they make larger versions of those hoods they put on dogs and cats to keep them away from sores.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

….Traditional Devon’s\u2122 Churchill presented us with\u00a0a new problem the other day.\u00a0 He had been dehorned several years ago but for some reason the “stump” had splintered and we found him in the pasture this way…an ugly sight but he didn’t seem particularly disturbed. We first thought one of two younger bulls had gotten into a “head-to-head” with him, testing his strength.\u00a0 But they seemed properly differential.\u00a0 It was also possible he had been scratching his head on a tree, and broke what was left of his horn.\u00a0 In any event, the wound was too serious to leave untreated. So veterinarian Monica O’Brien clipped off the broken ends and then cauterized the site.\u00a0 Again, not pretty….we’ll write if you want the details…but Churchill took it calmly. We’ve put him in a pen by himself now….hoping that he won’t reopen the wound in a jousting match with one of the other cows.\u00a0 But we can’t be sure that, if the site starts to itch, he won’t rub it against a tree or a post.\u00a0 Wonder if they make larger versions of those hoods they put on dogs and cats to keep them away from sores.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-churchill","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4543","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=4543"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4557,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4543\/revisions\/4557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}