{"id":3846,"date":"2014-09-29T22:06:15","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T02:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=3846"},"modified":"2014-09-29T22:08:51","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T02:08:51","slug":"annual-devon-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/annual-devon-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"The annual Devon meeting…."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"20140928_119\"<\/a>….was held at Jacob and Jenny Owens’ beautiful “Brookview Farm” in Kentucky thoroughbred company.\u00a0 And the Owen’s more than hold their own in that high-powered company.<\/p>\n

The 600-acre farm is home to about 50 mama cows so, as one of the visitors put it, \u00a0stocking density is not a problem.\u00a0 Calving season had just begun, adding both fun and an extra educational opportunity.<\/p>\n

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The 100-plus attendees included quite a few new faces. If\u00a0any scene\u00a0typifies a Devon meeting, it is Gearld Fry (in\u00a0yellow shirt) lecturing from a wagon bed about the proper cow.<\/p>\n

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Among the listeners was Jacob’s herd, which crowded close and were rewarded to hear that their thymuses (thy-mi?) were in\u00a0good working order.\u00a0\u00a0It’s a testimony to Jacob’s stockmanship \u00a0\"20140928_136\"<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 that not only the cows but the new babies were so comfortable\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 among the strangers.<\/p>\n

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But the bulk of the education duties fell to the next generation: Guille Yearwood and Jeremy Engh led a discussion\u00a0on finishing steers and Jeremy handled sessions on processing new calves and another on DNA.<\/p>\n

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There’s no doubt this meeting set Red Devon USA on a constructive course.\u00a0 It’s been many years since Devon breeders have been so unified and optimistic about the future.<\/p>\n

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….was held at Jacob and Jenny Owens’ beautiful “Brookview Farm” in Kentucky thoroughbred company.\u00a0 And the Owen’s more than hold their own in that high-powered company. The 600-acre farm is home to about 50 mama cows so, as one of the visitors put it, \u00a0stocking density is not a problem.\u00a0 Calving season had just begun, adding both fun and an extra educational opportunity. The 100-plus attendees included quite a few new faces. If\u00a0any scene\u00a0typifies a Devon meeting, it is Gearld Fry (in\u00a0yellow shirt) lecturing from a wagon bed about the proper cow.   Among the listeners was Jacob’s herd, which crowded close and were rewarded to hear that their thymuses (thy-mi?) were in\u00a0good working order.\u00a0\u00a0It’s a testimony to Jacob’s stockmanship \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 that not only the cows but the new babies were so comfortable\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 among the strangers.   But the bulk of the education duties fell to the next generation: Guille Yearwood and Jeremy Engh led a discussion\u00a0on finishing steers and Jeremy handled sessions on processing new calves and another on DNA. There’s no doubt this meeting set Red Devon USA on a constructive course.\u00a0 It’s been many years since Devon breeders have been so unified and optimistic about the future.                            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-red-devon-usa","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3846","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=3846"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3880,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3846\/revisions\/3880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}