{"id":294,"date":"2011-12-06T07:37:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T12:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=294"},"modified":"2011-12-06T12:03:23","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T17:03:23","slug":"now-about-senepol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/now-about-senepol\/","title":{"rendered":"Now about Senepol…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Back in the beginning, when we were deciding on the breed that would do best in our area and provide the best meat, we considered not only Devon, our eventual choice, but Senepol.\u00a0 And here is our newest calf from a Senepol mama, born yesterday.\u00a0 She has a Devon daddy and we’ve found the cross between the two to be just about ideal.<\/p>\n

They are the steer of choice for many of our customers who are in the meat business.\u00a0 The Amish in Pennsylvania are particularly fond of them and report they get sensational carcass yields from our Thistle Hill crosses.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And here’s another Thistle Hill baby once removed.\u00a0 This Devon bull calf was just born at Rich and Kristi Hamilton’s Elm Spring Farms in southern Virginia.\u00a0 They’re excited and we are, too.\u00a0 Both Dad and Dam were purchased at\u00a0Thistle Hill.\u00a0 The Hamiltons are in the meat business, for sure!<\/p>\n

And one more word about the Senepol breed, a cow that most people have never heard of; not even some experts.\u00a0 The Senepol is a cow that was developed in St. Croix about 100 years ago.\u00a0 It has African roots, does exceedingly well in the heat and there is none better in converting minimum forage to delicious beef.\u00a0 We bought our first Senepol from Teddy Gentry of Alabama country music fame.\u00a0 Teddy and Wooz and I were all a bit worried about bringing Senepol this far north.\u00a0 They don’t have a very thick hair coat.\u00a0 But after the first winter, they have adapted well and have been such a joy, and such contributors, that we’ve kept them all.<\/p>\n

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Back in the beginning, when we were deciding on the breed that would do best in our area and provide the best meat, we considered not only Devon, our eventual choice, but Senepol.\u00a0 And here is our newest calf from a Senepol mama, born yesterday.\u00a0 She has a Devon daddy and we’ve found the cross between the two to be just about ideal. They are the steer of choice for many of our customers who are in the meat business.\u00a0 The Amish in Pennsylvania are particularly fond of them and report they get sensational carcass yields from our Thistle Hill crosses. And here’s another Thistle Hill baby once removed.\u00a0 This Devon bull calf was just born at Rich and Kristi Hamilton’s Elm Spring Farms in southern Virginia.\u00a0 They’re excited and we are, too.\u00a0 Both Dad and Dam were purchased at\u00a0Thistle Hill.\u00a0 The Hamiltons are in the meat business, for sure! And one more word about the Senepol breed, a cow that most people have never heard of; not even some experts.\u00a0 The Senepol is a cow that was developed in St. Croix about 100 years ago.\u00a0 It has African roots, does exceedingly well in the heat and there is none better in converting minimum forage to delicious beef.\u00a0 We bought our first Senepol from Teddy Gentry of Alabama country music fame.\u00a0 Teddy and Wooz and I were all a bit worried about bringing Senepol this far north.\u00a0 They don’t have a very thick hair coat.\u00a0 But after the first winter, they have adapted well and have been such a joy, and such contributors, that we’ve kept them all.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-senepol"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294","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=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions\/304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}