{"id":6749,"date":"2021-03-20T12:07:30","date_gmt":"2021-03-20T16:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=6749"},"modified":"2021-03-20T12:07:32","modified_gmt":"2021-03-20T16:07:32","slug":"free-at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/free-at-last\/","title":{"rendered":"Free at last…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"Thistle<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

…with everyone in the family safely vaccinated, I was finally able to escape my senior residence for the first time in almost exactly a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Naturally it was this year\u2019s calf crop that interested me most. \u00a0They\u2019re five months old now and a rewarding bunch of prospects. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"THF<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Church\u2019s favorite is THF 3…the daughter of TDA Cashtiller 4 and our Essington bull. \u00a0She\u2019s the latest in our line of pure traditional English calves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Bribery<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I was taken by this Bribery heifer..a combination of four great English herds. \u00a0She\u2019s two-years old…and perhaps in-calf. \u00a0And she was the last mating Wooz and Church selected on our final visit to England.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Champson<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

We were in agreement in selecting this Champson Defender calf as our top bull prospect. \u00a0We\u2019re particularly excited to see the impact he might eventually have on our herd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But a word of caution…in our experience calves change a lot in their first two years… particularly bull calves. \u00a0And almost every year a late bloomer comes along and surprises us!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…with everyone in the family safely vaccinated, I was finally able to escape my senior residence for the first time in almost exactly a year. Naturally it was this year\u2019s calf crop that interested me most. \u00a0They\u2019re five months old now and a rewarding bunch of prospects. Church\u2019s favorite is THF 3…the daughter of TDA Cashtiller 4 and our Essington bull. \u00a0She\u2019s the latest in our line of pure traditional English calves. I was taken by this Bribery heifer..a combination of four great English herds. \u00a0She\u2019s two-years old…and perhaps in-calf. \u00a0And she was the last mating Wooz and Church selected on our final visit to England. We were in agreement in selecting this Champson Defender calf as our top bull prospect. \u00a0We\u2019re particularly excited to see the impact he might eventually have on our herd. But a word of caution…in our experience calves change a lot in their first two years… particularly bull calves. \u00a0And almost every year a late bloomer comes along and surprises us! David<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,139,17,134,4,158,19,13,148,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breeding","category-bribery","category-bulls","category-calves","category-cashtiller","category-church","category-cows","category-david","category-essington","category-wooz"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6749","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=6749"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6765,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6749\/revisions\/6765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}