{"id":421219,"date":"2026-02-12T05:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T05:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/421219\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T05:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T05:23:08","slug":"lincolnshire-wildlife-trust-welcomes-first-calf-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/421219\/","title":{"rendered":"Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust welcomes first calf of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The wildlife trust also keeps its own herd of Hebridean-cross sheep, as well as the Lincoln Red cattle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Most of the cattle spend the year outside, coming in for shelter in  winter and to calve.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The Lincoln Red is one of the oldest and most traditional native cattle breeds, known for being both hardy and docile, so ideally suited to a life of conservation grazing,&#8221; the wildlife trust said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The trust are expecting 18 calves to be born this season, which would match the same amount as last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The trust also works with different breeds of sheep and cattle, including Highland cows and ponies, to implement conservation breeding on some of its nature reserves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The wildlife trust also keeps its own herd of Hebridean-cross sheep, as well as the Lincoln Red cattle.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-421219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}