{"id":6385,"date":"2020-09-21T03:45:21","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T07:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=6385"},"modified":"2020-09-21T03:45:26","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T07:45:26","slug":"a-tale-of-two-cows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/a-tale-of-two-cows\/","title":{"rendered":"A tale of two cows&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8230;our first heifer calf finally&#8230;THF 3&#8230;posing with her two mamas.<\/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\/09\/THF3andTDA04.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"784\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/THF3andTDA04-1024x784.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6387\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/THF3andTDA04-1024x784.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/THF3andTDA04-300x230.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/THF3andTDA04-768x588.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/THF3andTDA04-1536x1176.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/THF3andTDA04.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The birth mother is on the left&#8230;TDA04&#8230;a pure traditional English Devon.&nbsp; The other cow is a young cow whose calf was born stillborn earlier in the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TDA15 wandered around lost until this baby came along.&nbsp; Whether she thinks it\u2019s hers or just wants to help, we don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fortunately TDA04 is an old hand and isn\u2019t chasing her away.&nbsp; I expect eventually both cows will wind up nursing her and this 65-pound heifer calf will thrive!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A happy ending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>David<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;our first heifer calf finally&#8230;THF 3&#8230;posing with her two mamas. The birth mother is on the left&#8230;TDA04&#8230;a pure traditional English Devon.&nbsp; The other cow is a young cow whose calf was born stillborn earlier in the day. TDA15 wandered around lost until this baby came along.&nbsp; Whether she thinks it\u2019s hers or just wants to help, we don\u2019t know. Fortunately TDA04 is an old hand and isn\u2019t chasing her away.&nbsp; I expect eventually both cows will wind up nursing her and this 65-pound heifer calf will thrive! A happy ending. David<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,134,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breeding","category-calves","category-cows"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6385","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=6385"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6388,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6385\/revisions\/6388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}