{"id":5704,"date":"2019-06-21T16:27:04","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T20:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=5704"},"modified":"2019-06-21T16:30:49","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T20:30:49","slug":"the-next-generation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/the-next-generation-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The next generation&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_6739.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"823\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_6739-1024x823.jpg\" alt=\"16-month old Thistle Hill Farm heifer.\" class=\"wp-image-5705\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_6739-1024x823.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_6739-300x241.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_6739-768x617.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_6739.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\n&#8230;and a picture of the result of mating our oldest American cow with a young British bull.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The dam is 17 years old and still producing. But Church has decided it\u2019s time to work in her replacement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This 16-month old heifer will be filling some mighty big hooves. Mom  produced a string of outstanding bull calves. So it was an easy decision  to set aside F212 for the main herd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sire is Traditional Devon Highwayman&#8230;descended from the finest bull I ever saw in England&#8230;Ashott Barton Millennium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So we feel we\u2019ve bred the best of both worlds&#8230;English and American! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>David<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;and a picture of the result of mating our oldest American cow with a young British bull. The dam is 17 years old and still producing. But Church has decided it\u2019s time to work in her replacement. This 16-month old heifer will be filling some mighty big hooves. Mom produced a string of outstanding bull calves. So it was an easy decision to set aside F212 for the main herd. The sire is Traditional Devon Highwayman&#8230;descended from the finest bull I ever saw in England&#8230;Ashott Barton Millennium. So we feel we\u2019ve bred the best of both worlds&#8230;English and American! David<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120,3,13,24,97,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ashott-barton","category-breeding","category-david","category-england","category-highwayman","category-traditional-devon"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5704","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=5704"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5707,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5704\/revisions\/5707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}