{"id":473,"date":"2012-02-18T12:01:46","date_gmt":"2012-02-18T17:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=473"},"modified":"2012-02-18T12:01:46","modified_gmt":"2012-02-18T17:01:46","slug":"a-bulls-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/a-bulls-life\/","title":{"rendered":"A bull&#8217;s life&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/20120218_62.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-474\" title=\"20120218_62\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/20120218_62-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>&#8230;ain&#8217;t bad at Thistle Hill.\u00a0 First, there are fences so the women can&#8217;t run too far.\u00a0 We&#8217;re using two very young bulls this year and each has a very limited work load.\u00a0 (You call this work?)\u00a0 But with all the AI and embryo transplants, they should have no more than about 10 cows each to cover.<\/p>\n<p>This is U6.\u00a0 He has Rotokawa 688 back a few generations on both sides of his pedigree.\u00a0 The cows and heifers are all 974 descendants, so it should be quite a pairing.\u00a0 U6 is with the heifers and first-calf heifers; U2 is across the road handling the older cows.<\/p>\n<p>We think one of the good things about shopping\u00a0at Thistle Hill is that you can see several generations all right before you without walking very far.\u00a0 In fact, if you stand still, they&#8217;ll probably come to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;ain&#8217;t bad at Thistle Hill.\u00a0 First, there are fences so the women can&#8217;t run too far.\u00a0 We&#8217;re using two very young bulls this year and each has a very limited work load.\u00a0 (You call this work?)\u00a0 But with all the AI and embryo transplants, they should have no more than about 10 cows each to cover. This is U6.\u00a0 He has Rotokawa 688 back a few generations on both sides of his pedigree.\u00a0 The cows and heifers are all 974 descendants, so it should be quite a pairing.\u00a0 U6 is with the heifers and first-calf heifers; U2 is across the road handling the older cows. We think one of the good things about shopping\u00a0at Thistle Hill is that you can see several generations all right before you without walking very far.\u00a0 In fact, if you stand still, they&#8217;ll probably come to you.<\/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-473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473","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=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":476,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions\/476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}