{"id":7139,"date":"2022-04-01T02:11:33","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T06:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=7139"},"modified":"2022-04-01T02:13:48","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T06:13:48","slug":"just-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/just-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Just friends\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u2026we hope.&nbsp; Our cover bull Prince\u2026who is causing something of a stir in Devon circles\u2026and is our cover bull this year.<\/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\/04\/PrinceWDM2.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\/04\/PrinceWDM2.jpg\" alt=\"Prince and WDM2\" class=\"wp-image-7141\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/PrinceWDM2.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/PrinceWDM2-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/PrinceWDM2-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Prince is on the left\u2026sharing some unrolled hay with a cow we hope he doesn\u2019t get to friendly with.&nbsp; WMD2 is the female\u2026a cow we hope is carrying a Potheridge President embryo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The job of the cover bull is to find any cow that is open\u2026that is where the embryo hasn\u2019t taken\u2026and finish the job.&nbsp; By the calendar two cycles should have passed without heat\u2026so we\u2019re hoping this T\u00eate-\u00e0-t\u00eate-is just a coincidence.; that she is indeed carrying the Potheridge embryo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We won\u2019t know for sure until there\u2019s a pregnancy check\u2026in fact, not until there\u2019s a DNA reading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Either way we have high hopes for the calf.&nbsp; President was probably the most famous bull of all time but his progeny have all but disappeared.&nbsp; Prince is an English bull from the Tulip line, almost as well-known.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In all we implanted a half dozen Potheridge President embryos this year.\u00a0 One recip definitely went into heat and was serviced by Prince.\u00a0 We\u2019ll be sure to post the final results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>David<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026we hope.&nbsp; Our cover bull Prince\u2026who is causing something of a stir in Devon circles\u2026and is our cover bull this year. Prince is on the left\u2026sharing some unrolled hay with a cow we hope he doesn\u2019t get to friendly with.&nbsp; WMD2 is the female\u2026a cow we hope is carrying a Potheridge President embryo. The job of the cover bull is to find any cow that is open\u2026that is where the embryo hasn\u2019t taken\u2026and finish the job.&nbsp; By the calendar two cycles should have passed without heat\u2026so we\u2019re hoping this T\u00eate-\u00e0-t\u00eate-is just a coincidence.; that she is indeed carrying the Potheridge embryo. We won\u2019t know for sure until there\u2019s a pregnancy check\u2026in fact, not until there\u2019s a DNA reading. Either way we have high hopes for the calf.&nbsp; President was probably the most famous bull of all time but his progeny have all but disappeared.&nbsp; Prince is an English bull from the Tulip line, almost as well-known. In all we implanted a half dozen Potheridge President embryos this year.\u00a0 One recip definitely went into heat and was serviced by Prince.\u00a0 We\u2019ll be sure to post the final results. David<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17,19,13,179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breeding","category-bulls","category-cows","category-david","category-prince"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7139","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=7139"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7144,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7139\/revisions\/7144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}