{"id":6119,"date":"2020-03-03T03:52:28","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T08:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=6119"},"modified":"2020-03-03T03:52:34","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T08:52:34","slug":"essington-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/essington-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Essington Park&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u2026makes its mark on Thistle Hill.  A brother and sister from a famous English herd now are full contributors to our herd!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Buttercup.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"666\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Buttercup-1024x666.jpg\" alt=\"Buttercup \" class=\"wp-image-6121\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Buttercup-1024x666.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Buttercup-300x195.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Buttercup-768x499.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Buttercup-1536x998.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Buttercup.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The culmination of a lifetime dedicated to the Devon breed, famed English herdsman Brian Drake volunteered his Buttercup cow\u2026dam of this young cow now maturing in America.  The sire is Millennium Falcon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now that she\u2019s bred, she can reunite with the main herd\u2026passing her full brother on the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Essington.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"764\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Essington-1024x764.jpg\" alt=\"Essington - Thistlehill Farm Bull\" class=\"wp-image-6120\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Essington-1024x764.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Essington-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Essington-768x573.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Essington-1536x1146.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Essington.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Son-in-law Curt Humphreys escorts four-year old Essington to a pen for return to the bull pasture.  For the past 45 days he has served as the cover bull for almost 30 AI candidates.  And that\u2019s our most ambitious artificial insemination project to date!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s an honor for us to carry Brian Drake\u2019s work forward.  The Essington Park name goes back to before World War II\u2026Buttercup long before that! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026makes its mark on Thistle Hill. A brother and sister from a famous English herd now are full contributors to our herd! The culmination of a lifetime dedicated to the Devon breed, famed English herdsman Brian Drake volunteered his Buttercup cow\u2026dam of this young cow now maturing in America. The sire is Millennium Falcon. Now that she\u2019s bred, she can reunite with the main herd\u2026passing her full brother on the way. Son-in-law Curt Humphreys escorts four-year old Essington to a pen for return to the bull pasture. For the past 45 days he has served as the cover bull for almost 30 AI candidates. And that\u2019s our most ambitious artificial insemination project to date! It\u2019s an honor for us to carry Brian Drake\u2019s work forward. The Essington Park name goes back to before World War II\u2026Buttercup long before that!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,13,148,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buttercup","category-david","category-essington","category-falcon"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6119","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=6119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6122,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6119\/revisions\/6122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}