{"id":4602,"date":"2015-11-25T08:45:55","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T13:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=4602"},"modified":"2015-11-25T08:48:23","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T13:48:23","slug":"warning-do-not-try-this-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/warning-do-not-try-this-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Warning:  do not try this at home&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.unless Mom is a Devon.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_4155-e1448458554129.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-4603\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_4155-e1448458554129-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4155\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Grandson Church Humphreys fortunately was on Thanksgiving break from college this morning to &#8220;bulldog&#8221; two newborn English calves.\u00a0 This one is a heifer out of <em>Essington Park Buttercup<\/em> by <em>Ashott Barton Millennium Falcon.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Just slightly up the hill her full brother was also born overnight.\u00a0 In both cases the dams put their noses right into the action&#8230;mooing softly to the calves that Church wouldn&#8217;t hurt them.\u00a0 Of course, David with his tag applicator and pliers to pull tail hairs was another matter.<\/p>\n<p>Note that we use our best cows as recips.\u00a0 We feel they&#8217;re every bit as important as the actual donor cow and sire.<\/p>\n<p>Both these calves join the Traditional Devon\u2122 herd which now numbers 22 animals.\u00a0 We&#8217;re getting there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.unless Mom is a Devon. Grandson Church Humphreys fortunately was on Thanksgiving break from college this morning to &#8220;bulldog&#8221; two newborn English calves.\u00a0 This one is a heifer out of Essington Park Buttercup by Ashott Barton Millennium Falcon. Just slightly up the hill her full brother was also born overnight.\u00a0 In both cases the dams put their noses right into the action&#8230;mooing softly to the calves that Church wouldn&#8217;t hurt them.\u00a0 Of course, David with his tag applicator and pliers to pull tail hairs was another matter. Note that we use our best cows as recips.\u00a0 We feel they&#8217;re every bit as important as the actual donor cow and sire. Both these calves join the Traditional Devon\u2122 herd which now numbers 22 animals.\u00a0 We&#8217;re getting there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,83,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buttercup","category-falcon","category-traditional-devon"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4602","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=4602"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4605,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4602\/revisions\/4605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}