{"id":7025,"date":"2022-01-10T02:07:55","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T07:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=7025"},"modified":"2022-01-10T02:07:57","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T07:07:57","slug":"a-lucky-stroke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/a-lucky-stroke\/","title":{"rendered":"A lucky stroke\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By grandson Church who bred this two-month old heifer.&nbsp; The semen tested poorly but we liked the son Church produced last year so we tried again.<\/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\/2022\/01\/Defender.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Defender-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Heifer calf - daughter of Defender.\" class=\"wp-image-7026\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Defender-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Defender-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Defender-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Defender.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>She\u2019s the daughter of Defender, the most recent star of the famous Champson herd.&nbsp; Her brother will have the chance to breed for the first time this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We like Defender very much and are pleased to have him round out our battery of pure traditional English Devon bulls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Up for discussion is whether to risk a live flush which is now scheduled for about a week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The dam of this heifer was our TDA 4\u2026a \u201csmallesh\u201d cow even by English Devon standards.\u00a0 This girl was 59 pounds at birth but growing nicely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>David<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By grandson Church who bred this two-month old heifer.&nbsp; The semen tested poorly but we liked the son Church produced last year so we tried again. She\u2019s the daughter of Defender, the most recent star of the famous Champson herd.&nbsp; Her brother will have the chance to breed for the first time this year. We like Defender very much and are pleased to have him round out our battery of pure traditional English Devon bulls. Up for discussion is whether to risk a live flush which is now scheduled for about a week. The dam of this heifer was our TDA 4\u2026a \u201csmallesh\u201d cow even by English Devon standards.\u00a0 This girl was 59 pounds at birth but growing nicely. David<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,164,167,13,24,157],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breeding","category-champson","category-church-humphreys","category-david","category-england","category-heifer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7025","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=7025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7027,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7025\/revisions\/7027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}