{"id":2647,"date":"2013-09-24T06:26:56","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T10:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=2647"},"modified":"2013-09-24T06:26:56","modified_gmt":"2013-09-24T10:26:56","slug":"parade-bulls-triple-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/parade-bulls-triple-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Parade of bulls&#8230;.Triple 8&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130922_5381.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2648\" alt=\"20130922_538\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130922_5381.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130922_5381.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130922_5381-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Triple 8<\/em>&#8230;.<em>688-8<\/em>&#8230;.is another line bred bull.\u00a0 He&#8217;s exactly two years old, the son of <em>Rotokawa 688<\/em> of course as well as 688&#8217;s daughter, <em>Thistle Hill Hope (R6).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in a powerful concentration of the best Devon genetics, look no further than <em>688-8<\/em>.\u00a0 He can upgrade your herd in a generation.<\/p>\n<p>For the argument for line breeding, here&#8217;s a quote from Gearld Fry&#8217;s recent newsletter:<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;There is no faster way that I know of to make genetic progress and fix traits in a herd.\u00a0 What happens is, a son from that particular mating will have the genetic quality traits from the mother and the quality and prepotency contained in the father.\u00a0 This gives him the ability to rubber-stamp those traits through the entire<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em>herd.\u00a0 When you breed him to the other top females and their daughters, <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>including half blood and \u00be blood sisters, you will see consistency like you have never seen before.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Triple 8&#8230;.688-8&#8230;.is another line bred bull.\u00a0 He&#8217;s exactly two years old, the son of Rotokawa 688 of course as well as 688&#8217;s daughter, Thistle Hill Hope (R6). If you&#8217;re interested in a powerful concentration of the best Devon genetics, look no further than 688-8.\u00a0 He can upgrade your herd in a generation. For the argument for line breeding, here&#8217;s a quote from Gearld Fry&#8217;s recent newsletter: &#8220;There is no faster way that I know of to make genetic progress and fix traits in a herd.\u00a0 What happens is, a son from that particular mating will have the genetic quality traits from the mother and the quality and prepotency contained in the father.\u00a0 This gives him the ability to rubber-stamp those traits through the entire herd.\u00a0 When you breed him to the other top females and their daughters, including half blood and \u00be blood sisters, you will see consistency like you have never seen before.&#8221; &nbsp; &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-2647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bulls"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2647","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=2647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2649,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2647\/revisions\/2649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}