{"id":1524,"date":"2013-01-17T18:15:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T23:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=1524"},"modified":"2013-01-18T07:24:26","modified_gmt":"2013-01-18T12:24:26","slug":"the-pay-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/the-pay-off\/","title":{"rendered":"The pay-off…."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"20130117_45\"<\/a>….regular readers know that we’ve made repeated trips to southwest England in recent years and, with two American partners, have selected outstanding pure, traditional English bulls and cows…collected embryos from the matings….and imported them to the United States.\u00a0 And here’s the result:\u00a0 a three-month old bull calf out of Goldings Norah by Millennium Falcon.\u00a0 We just saw him\u00a0recently at the farm in Georgia where he was calved and we couldn’t be more pleased.<\/p>\n

\"closeup2\"<\/a>Doubly pleased.\u00a0 There on the same pasture was his brother, another Falcon sired bull calf out of a cow from another great, historic British herd, Essington Park.\u00a0 These two, with a third British bull that calved here at Thistle Hill, gives us a trio of great prospects for a partnership we’re calling Traditional Devon America.<\/p>\n

It’s a long time, and a lot of hours, and a lot of tramping soggy English pastures finding the candidates, checking and double-\"closeup\"<\/a><\/p>\n

checking pedigrees, going through the red tape of import restrictions, finding recipient cows, and then waiting out the implant and birthing process.\u00a0 Wooz and Georgia farmer Doyle Unruh deserve a good and relieved laugh together after all that.<\/p>\n

I can’t describe the joy we felt at seeing these young bulls on Doyle’s pasture.\u00a0 It more than rewarded us for all the work,\u00a0and it was with renewed excitement that we left Doyle with another canister full of more embryos for the next chapter in the history of Traditional Devon American<\/p>\n

If you want to read more about all this we invite you to switch to www.traditionaldevon.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

….regular readers know that we’ve made repeated trips to southwest England in recent years and, with two American partners, have selected outstanding pure, traditional English bulls and cows…collected embryos from the matings….and imported them to the United States.\u00a0 And here’s the result:\u00a0 a three-month old bull calf out of Goldings Norah by Millennium Falcon.\u00a0 We just saw him\u00a0recently at the farm in Georgia where he was calved and we couldn’t be more pleased. Doubly pleased.\u00a0 There on the same pasture was his brother, another Falcon sired bull calf out of a cow from another great, historic British herd, Essington Park.\u00a0 These two, with a third British bull that calved here at Thistle Hill, gives us a trio of great prospects for a partnership we’re calling Traditional Devon America. It’s a long time, and a lot of hours, and a lot of tramping soggy English pastures finding the candidates, checking and double- checking pedigrees, going through the red tape of import restrictions, finding recipient cows, and then waiting out the implant and birthing process.\u00a0 Wooz and Georgia farmer Doyle Unruh deserve a good and relieved laugh together after all that. I can’t describe the joy we felt at seeing these young bulls on Doyle’s pasture.\u00a0 It more than rewarded us for all the work,\u00a0and it was with renewed excitement that we left Doyle with another canister full of more embryos for the next chapter in the history of Traditional Devon American If you want to read more about all this we invite you to switch to www.traditionaldevon.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,24,36,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bulls","category-england","category-traditional-devon","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524","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=1524"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1530,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524\/revisions\/1530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}