{"id":3676,"date":"2014-08-11T10:12:18","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T14:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=3676"},"modified":"2014-08-11T10:12:18","modified_gmt":"2014-08-11T14:12:18","slug":"letters-get-letters-contd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/letters-get-letters-contd\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters, we get letters (cont’d)…."},"content":{"rendered":"

….and often the unexpected.\u00a0 Recently we posted an item about one of our English heifers, Essington Park Buttercup<\/em>.\u00a0 Within hours we heard from a breeder in England we haven’t met—Martyn Heard—who farms near Exeter in Devon.<\/p>\n

Martyn told us he had purchased Buttercup’s<\/em> dam in the Essington Park dispersal sale and he wondered about the identity of Buttercup’s<\/em> sire.\u00a0 Well first, thanks for reading and thanks for writing.\u00a0 If you have a chance, tell us more about how you’re doing with your new cows.<\/p>\n

We AI-ed your cow at Bovine Genetics near Bishops Itchington to Ashott Barton’s Millennium Falcon<\/em>.\u00a0 He was bred by Shiamala Comer, still an excellent source for live bulls…some from the original Cutcombe Millennium<\/em>, one of the three or four best bulls I’ve seen.\u00a0 Again, please keep in touch.<\/p>\n

The unexpected note made me check our statistics.\u00a0 It appears we have about 4,000 regular visitors (unique, as they say) every month to our website….about that many track us on Facebook (which is where Martyn wrote us).\u00a0 There’s no way we can know how much duplication there may be.<\/p>\n

About 75% of our readers are from the US….with healthy readership in Canada, the United Kingdom, Brazil and Australia.\u00a0 There are also more than a few readers in Japan, China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Russia, Argentina,\u00a0France,\u00a0and Spain.\u00a0 After that there are one or two in places like Peru and\u00a0the Sudan!<\/p>\n

We thank you all….and when I look at the list….it makes me want to get more serious about this.\u00a0 Then, we’ve just run out of water in Green Field and it’s time to replenish the minerals and……you know how it is.<\/p>\n

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….and often the unexpected.\u00a0 Recently we posted an item about one of our English heifers, Essington Park Buttercup.\u00a0 Within hours we heard from a breeder in England we haven’t met—Martyn Heard—who farms near Exeter in Devon. Martyn told us he had purchased Buttercup’s dam in the Essington Park dispersal sale and he wondered about the identity of Buttercup’s sire.\u00a0 Well first, thanks for reading and thanks for writing.\u00a0 If you have a chance, tell us more about how you’re doing with your new cows. We AI-ed your cow at Bovine Genetics near Bishops Itchington to Ashott Barton’s Millennium Falcon.\u00a0 He was bred by Shiamala Comer, still an excellent source for live bulls…some from the original Cutcombe Millennium, one of the three or four best bulls I’ve seen.\u00a0 Again, please keep in touch. The unexpected note made me check our statistics.\u00a0 It appears we have about 4,000 regular visitors (unique, as they say) every month to our website….about that many track us on Facebook (which is where Martyn wrote us).\u00a0 There’s no way we can know how much duplication there may be. About 75% of our readers are from the US….with healthy readership in Canada, the United Kingdom, Brazil and Australia.\u00a0 There are also more than a few readers in Japan, China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Russia, Argentina,\u00a0France,\u00a0and Spain.\u00a0 After that there are one or two in places like Peru and\u00a0the Sudan! We thank you all….and when I look at the list….it makes me want to get more serious about this.\u00a0 Then, we’ve just run out of water in Green Field and it’s time to replenish the minerals and……you know how it is.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buttercup"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3676","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=3676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3678,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3676\/revisions\/3678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}