{"id":2197,"date":"2013-05-27T15:55:03","date_gmt":"2013-05-27T19:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=2197"},"modified":"2013-05-27T16:01:29","modified_gmt":"2013-05-27T20:01:29","slug":"the-thistle-hill-alumni-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/the-thistle-hill-alumni-club\/","title":{"rendered":"The Thistle Hill alumni club&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Tomina-Farm-Titan-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2198\" alt=\"Tomina Farm Titan (2)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Tomina-Farm-Titan-2-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>&#8230;well the son of an alum, anyway.\u00a0 This young seven-month old bull, <em>Tomina Farms Titan<\/em>, is the son of <em>Thistle Hill&#8217;s Magic<\/em>.\u00a0 <em>Magic<\/em> was the meatiest bull we&#8217;ve ever raised here and he&#8217;s seen herd sire duty first at <em>Tomina Farms<\/em> in Tennessee and then gone\u00a0on to Louisiana.<\/p>\n<p>Whenever Regina Tesnow sends us pictures from <em>Tomina Farms<\/em>, our animals seem to have improved with the trip and we wonder if we should have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/110-Shenandoah.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2199\" alt=\"110 Shenandoah\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/110-Shenandoah-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>hung on to them.\u00a0 The heifer was born here just six months ago.\u00a0 Regina calls her <em>Shenandoah<\/em>.\u00a0 Actually she was born alongside the Rappahannock river, but I guess that&#8217;s not a good name for a little girl.\u00a0 Her sire is <em>Thistle Hill U2<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>It is true that Wooz and I have some differences when it comes to selling our animals.\u00a0 (Only in this area, of course)\u00a0 Wooz&#8217; view might be summed up this way:\u00a0\u00a0 sell nothing!\u00a0 As\u00a0 \u00a0producers, I feel it comes down to protecting a valued line.\u00a0 If we have backup, I am willing to part with a top animal.<\/p>\n<p>By the same token, we don&#8217;t believe in selling a cull.\u00a0 If there&#8217;s a problem, the animal goes to the sale barn.\u00a0 Incidentally, semen is available on Magic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;well the son of an alum, anyway.\u00a0 This young seven-month old bull, Tomina Farms Titan, is the son of Thistle Hill&#8217;s Magic.\u00a0 Magic was the meatiest bull we&#8217;ve ever raised here and he&#8217;s seen herd sire duty first at Tomina Farms in Tennessee and then gone\u00a0on to Louisiana. Whenever Regina Tesnow sends us pictures from Tomina Farms, our animals seem to have improved with the trip and we wonder if we should have hung on to them.\u00a0 The heifer was born here just six months ago.\u00a0 Regina calls her Shenandoah.\u00a0 Actually she was born alongside the Rappahannock river, but I guess that&#8217;s not a good name for a little girl.\u00a0 Her sire is Thistle Hill U2. It is true that Wooz and I have some differences when it comes to selling our animals.\u00a0 (Only in this area, of course)\u00a0 Wooz&#8217; view might be summed up this way:\u00a0\u00a0 sell nothing!\u00a0 As\u00a0 \u00a0producers, I feel it comes down to protecting a valued line.\u00a0 If we have backup, I am willing to part with a top animal. By the same token, we don&#8217;t believe in selling a cull.\u00a0 If there&#8217;s a problem, the animal goes to the sale barn.\u00a0 Incidentally, semen is available on Magic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magic","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197","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=2197"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2201,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197\/revisions\/2201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}