{"id":6031,"date":"2019-12-13T01:42:48","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T06:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=6031"},"modified":"2019-12-13T01:42:54","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T06:42:54","slug":"king-david-on-assignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/king-david-on-assignment\/","title":{"rendered":"King David on assignment…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n…we\u2019re fortunate to have some cooperative farmers to \nhandle our heifers (and keep them away from the bulls)! But this is NOT \nthat time of year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"King<\/a>
Photo by Curt Humphreys<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Here is the King (2nd from right), a half English Devon bull from the old Essington Park herd, and his harem of eight English and American heifers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Between munches he can be heard saying \u201ctough work but somebody\u2019s got to do it\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you\u2019ve been wondering: yes there\u2019s a plan in our breeding. We start with the heifers and then the artificial insemination before moving to the main herd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That spaces the calving so we are generally watching the right cows at the right time. Generally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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…we\u2019re fortunate to have some cooperative farmers to handle our heifers (and keep them away from the bulls)! But this is NOT that time of year. Here is the King (2nd from right), a half English Devon bull from the old Essington Park herd, and his harem of eight English and American heifers. Between munches he can be heard saying \u201ctough work but somebody\u2019s got to do it\u201d. If you\u2019ve been wondering: yes there\u2019s a plan in our breeding. We start with the heifers and then the artificial insemination before moving to the main herd. That spaces the calving so we are generally watching the right cows at the right time. Generally. David<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17,19,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breeding","category-bulls","category-cows","category-david"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6031","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=6031"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6036,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6031\/revisions\/6036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}