• Ma, our baby boy is all growed up!

    His name is Augustine and he’s packed with Rotokawa 667 genetics.  He’s also the son of one of our favorite cows.  With all the attention we’ve been devoting to our English project, we didn’t want to give the impression we’ve been ignoring our breeding of Rotokawa offspring. At Thistle Hill, under the watchful eye of Ken McDowall, we’ve been interweaving our three favorite lines:  688, 974 and 667. Augustine is still shy of 2-years….imagine what he’ll be like “fully growed”!

  • Thistle Hill as laboratory….

    ….we’re fortunate to be considered something of a “place to see” if you’re studying this business (profession? trade? art?) of raising grass fed cattle.  Not long ago, we were visited by Sarah Flack who is in the very early stages of her career in forages,though she got quite a head start as a member of the Flack family, one of the important names in Milking Devon. And now at the very other end (my end) of the career time-line, we were pleased to welcome Martha Holdridge who writes an important blog with the address: www.grasspower.org.  Martha (seen here with Waniqing Zhou…a young Chinese woman with World Watch and a story…