Free at last…
…with everyone in the family safely vaccinated, I was finally able to escape my senior residence for the first time in almost exactly a year.
Naturally it was this year’s calf crop that interested me most. They’re five months old now and a rewarding bunch of prospects.
Church’s favorite is THF 3…the daughter of TDA Cashtiller 4 and our Essington bull. She’s the latest in our line of pure traditional English calves.
I was taken by this Bribery heifer..a combination of four great English herds. She’s two-years old…and perhaps in-calf. And she was the last mating Wooz and Church selected on our final visit to England.
![Champson Defender calf](http://www.thistlehill.net/wpblog/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Free2-1024x1024.jpg)
We were in agreement in selecting this Champson Defender calf as our top bull prospect. We’re particularly excited to see the impact he might eventually have on our herd.
But a word of caution…in our experience calves change a lot in their first two years… particularly bull calves. And almost every year a late bloomer comes along and surprises us!
David