{"id":1376,"date":"2012-12-25T18:17:28","date_gmt":"2012-12-25T23:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=1376"},"modified":"2012-12-28T00:20:45","modified_gmt":"2012-12-28T05:20:45","slug":"when-it-absolutely-has-to-be-there-overnight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/when-it-absolutely-has-to-be-there-overnight\/","title":{"rendered":"When it absolutely has to be there overnight&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/20121221_4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1375\" alt=\"20121221_4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/20121221_4-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>&#8230;.we always hope transport driver Mark Howard is available.\u00a0 The other day we made a large (for us) shipment of six cows with calves and a bull to two farms in Tennessee.\u00a0 The scheduled morning arrived and so did a heavy rain the night before.\u00a0 That made it impossible for Mark&#8217;s big rig to get down to the pens to load directly.\u00a0 So we ferried the animals in our trailer&#8230;.three at a time&#8230;.with our tractor standing by to pull us out of the mud, if necessary.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, it wasn&#8217;t necessary.\u00a0 Here farm manager Duane Ard (he was hoping for a raise for Christmas but we gave him a promotion instead) walks behind one group of three cows.\u00a0 Note the absence of prods and sticks.\u00a0 There was no shouting, either.\u00a0 Thistle Hill cows generally behave themselves, particularly when strangers are watching.\u00a0 It&#8217;s true&#8230;they&#8217;re show-offs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/20121221_81.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1378\" alt=\"20121221_8\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/20121221_81-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>One benefit: when you ship a herd bull like our Carolina Hobo to a new breeder like Trail White in Fairview, you know he won&#8217;t have any problems with a temperamental animal.<\/p>\n<p>This has been a particularly good year for Thistle Hill as both our seed stock and our beef and pork seem to have established a &#8220;name&#8221; in their respective communities.\u00a0 It makes us all the more determined to produce the finest Devon anywhere.\u00a0 It is Christmas evening as I write this, and my prayer is that you have had the kind of loving, family get-together that once again has blessed our farm.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.we always hope transport driver Mark Howard is available.\u00a0 The other day we made a large (for us) shipment of six cows with calves and a bull to two farms in Tennessee.\u00a0 The scheduled morning arrived and so did a heavy rain the night before.\u00a0 That made it impossible for Mark&#8217;s big rig to get down to the pens to load directly.\u00a0 So we ferried the animals in our trailer&#8230;.three at a time&#8230;.with our tractor standing by to pull us out of the mud, if necessary. Fortunately, it wasn&#8217;t necessary.\u00a0 Here farm manager Duane Ard (he was hoping for a raise for Christmas but we gave him a promotion instead) walks behind one group of three cows.\u00a0 Note the absence of prods and sticks.\u00a0 There was no shouting, either.\u00a0 Thistle Hill cows generally behave themselves, particularly when strangers are watching.\u00a0 It&#8217;s true&#8230;they&#8217;re show-offs. One benefit: when you ship a herd bull like our Carolina Hobo to a new breeder like Trail White in Fairview, you know he won&#8217;t have any problems with a temperamental animal. This has been a particularly good year for Thistle Hill as both our seed stock and our beef and pork seem to have established a &#8220;name&#8221; in their respective communities.\u00a0 It makes us all the more determined to produce the finest Devon anywhere.\u00a0 It is Christmas evening as I write this, and my prayer is that you have had the kind of loving, family get-together that once again has blessed our farm. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bulls"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376","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=1376"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1435,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376\/revisions\/1435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}