{"id":6918,"date":"2021-07-29T16:00:48","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T20:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=6918"},"modified":"2021-07-29T16:00:51","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T20:00:51","slug":"closing-the-circle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/closing-the-circle\/","title":{"rendered":"Closing the circle\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Bribery.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Bribery-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Thistlehill Farm - Bribery\" class=\"wp-image-6919\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Bribery-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Bribery-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Bribery-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Bribery.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Bribery is her name and we spotted her grand dam on our first visit to Ashott Barton farm in England 10 years ago.&nbsp; The breeder, Shiamala Comer, didn\u2019t want to submit her best cow to the rigors of flushing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fast forward 5 years and on our last trip to England , Wooz and Church convinced Shiamala to part with two heifers, one Bribery\u2019s daughter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What followed then was a convoluted journey to overcome England\u2019s export ban.&nbsp; In brief, we sold the heifers to a friendly English cattleman\u2026flushed them\u2026bought back the embryos\u2026and shipped them to Thistle Hill to implant in our cows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And here stands the result\u2026our Bribery, in an unbroken line from the legendary English herd Champson, now two months away from delivering her first calf.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>David<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bribery is her name and we spotted her grand dam on our first visit to Ashott Barton farm in England 10 years ago.&nbsp; The breeder, Shiamala Comer, didn\u2019t want to submit her best cow to the rigors of flushing. Fast forward 5 years and on our last trip to England , Wooz and Church convinced Shiamala to part with two heifers, one Bribery\u2019s daughter. What followed then was a convoluted journey to overcome England\u2019s export ban.&nbsp; In brief, we sold the heifers to a friendly English cattleman\u2026flushed them\u2026bought back the embryos\u2026and shipped them to Thistle Hill to implant in our cows. And here stands the result\u2026our Bribery, in an unbroken line from the legendary English herd Champson, now two months away from delivering her first calf.\u00a0 David<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120,3,139,134,164,158,13,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ashott-barton","category-breeding","category-bribery","category-calves","category-champson","category-church","category-david","category-england"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6918","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=6918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6920,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6918\/revisions\/6920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}