{"id":6185,"date":"2014-06-01T14:34:19","date_gmt":"2014-06-01T06:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=6185"},"modified":"2014-06-02T14:55:10","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T06:55:10","slug":"wiltipolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/01\/wiltipolls\/","title":{"rendered":"Wiltipolls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/20140601-004.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6138\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/20140601-004-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"20140601 004\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/20140601-004-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/20140601-004.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wiltipoll\">Wiltipoll sheep<\/a>\u00a0have been\u00a0developed in Australia over the last 20 years to create a polled variety of the self-shedding Wiltshire Horn suitable for heavy lamb production. \u00a0 \u00a0Because they don&#8217;t grow wool, their energy is directed to growing meat and milk. \u00a0 Compared with other sheep, the Wiltipoll is a prolific breeder and\u00a0unlike many other sheep breeds, twins, triplets and even quadruplets are common. Ewes will only breed once a year\u00a0and because they are seasonal breeders, we can leave the ram in with the ewes. \u00a0This \u00a0makes them even more convenient as we don&#8217;t need a separate paddock for the ram and he can run with them for 2 years. \u00a0Wiltipolls are very docile compared to the other popular shedders like the <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/27\/a-look-into-the-future\/\">independently minded Dorpers<\/a>. \u00a0 Apparently\u00a0the sheep will eat\u00a0out of your hand and don\u2019t require dogs for herding. \u00a0I am hoping this is the case and am going to feed them with a bucket twice a day while they settle in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wiltipoll sheep\u00a0have been\u00a0developed in Australia over the last 20 years to create a polled variety of the self-shedding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6138,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[15,30],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/20140601-004.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6185"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6188,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6185\/revisions\/6188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}