{"id":5370,"date":"2018-11-04T10:19:21","date_gmt":"2018-11-04T15:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=5370"},"modified":"2018-11-04T10:20:20","modified_gmt":"2018-11-04T15:20:20","slug":"red-rubies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/red-rubies\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Rubies&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;that\u2019s what our British colleagues call them&#8230;often leaving off the \u201cDevon\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/MomandSon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5372 size-medium\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000000; margin: 10px 0px 10px 10px;\" title=\"Mom and Son\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/MomandSon-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Mom and Son\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/MomandSon-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/MomandSon-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/MomandSon.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>Our most recent pure English arrival reminded us again of the beautiful deep ruby red color of the traditional Devon.<\/p>\n<p>We use different tags for our English herd though I\u2019m not sure why. Hide color identifies the English animals long before you\u2019re close enough to read the tags.<\/p>\n<p>We began the English acquisitions initially to strengthen our Rotokawa-Lenoir Creek-Lakota genetics.\u00a0 Developing an entirely traditional Devon herd came later.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_5391.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5374 size-medium\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000000; margin: 10px 0px 10px 10px;\" title=\" Descendant of the champion English cow Tilbrook Cashtiller.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_5391-300x210.jpg\" alt=\" Descendant of the champion English cow Tilbrook Cashtiller.\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_5391-300x210.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_5391-768x539.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_5391-1024x718.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_5391.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This is what we were looking for: a descendant of the champion English cow Tilbrook Cashtiller.<\/p>\n<p>The American side of the pedigree is all Rotokawa\/Lakota.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly that deep ruby red color is dominant. Now can this young cow equal her grandmother, who produced the top selling bull at three straight English National bull sales?!<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>David<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;that\u2019s what our British colleagues call them&#8230;often leaving off the \u201cDevon\u201d. Our most recent pure English arrival reminded us again of the beautiful deep ruby red color of the traditional Devon. We use different tags for our English herd though I\u2019m not sure why. Hide color identifies the English animals long before you\u2019re close enough to read the tags. We began the English acquisitions initially to strengthen our Rotokawa-Lenoir Creek-Lakota genetics.\u00a0 Developing an entirely traditional Devon herd came later. This is what we were looking for: a descendant of the champion English cow Tilbrook Cashtiller. The American side of the pedigree is all Rotokawa\/Lakota. Clearly that deep ruby red color is dominant. Now can this young cow equal her grandmother, who produced the top selling bull at three straight English National bull sales?! David<\/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-5370","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\/5370","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=5370"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5376,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5370\/revisions\/5376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}