{"id":4990,"date":"2016-06-27T07:16:36","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T11:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=4990"},"modified":"2016-06-27T07:19:09","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T11:19:09","slug":"traditional-devon-update-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/traditional-devon-update-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Traditional Devon update&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8230;<\/em>..the principals of Traditional Devon\u2122 got together this past week\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_1716-e1467025633676.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-4991\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_1716-e1467025633676-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1716\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>to review progress&#8230;and here&#8217;s an example:\u00a0 <em>TDA<\/em> 23.\u00a0 She&#8217;s an <em>Essington Park Buttercup<\/em> embryo daughter by <em>Ashott Barton Millennium Falcon<\/em>.\u00a0 She&#8217;s just five months old but this is what we&#8217;ve been\u00a0working for.<\/p>\n<p>English breeders Brian Drake (who provided the dam) and Shiamala Comer (who provided the bull) deserve\u00a0the the credit.\u00a0 But we think the picture demonstates another thing:\u00a0 the importance of the recip.\u00a0 Awhile back we decided that we were going to select our very best cows to serve as recipients.\u00a0 In our opinion that is just about as important as the genetics.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, veteran cattlemen Jerry and Jeremy Engh of Lakota Ranch visited this week as well and were equally impressed.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally number 2:\u00a0 Jeremy reports tentative plans are underway for a &#8220;mini-world tour&#8221; in two years and Thistle Hill has been asked to demonstrates the results of our &#8220;pure, traditional English Devon&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;..the principals of Traditional Devon\u2122 got together this past week\u00a0to review progress&#8230;and here&#8217;s an example:\u00a0 TDA 23.\u00a0 She&#8217;s an Essington Park Buttercup embryo daughter by Ashott Barton Millennium Falcon.\u00a0 She&#8217;s just five months old but this is what we&#8217;ve been\u00a0working for. English breeders Brian Drake (who provided the dam) and Shiamala Comer (who provided the bull) deserve\u00a0the the credit.\u00a0 But we think the picture demonstates another thing:\u00a0 the importance of the recip.\u00a0 Awhile back we decided that we were going to select our very best cows to serve as recipients.\u00a0 In our opinion that is just about as important as the genetics. Incidentally, veteran cattlemen Jerry and Jeremy Engh of Lakota Ranch visited this week as well and were equally impressed. Incidentally number 2:\u00a0 Jeremy reports tentative plans are underway for a &#8220;mini-world tour&#8221; in two years and Thistle Hill has been asked to demonstrates the results of our &#8220;pure, traditional English Devon&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120,86,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ashott-barton","category-buttercup","category-falcon"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4990","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=4990"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4996,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4990\/revisions\/4996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}