{"id":4052,"date":"2015-01-01T07:06:47","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T12:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=4052"},"modified":"2015-01-01T07:12:42","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T12:12:42","slug":"breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/breakthrough\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKTHROUGH!!!!…."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"20101021_402\"<\/a>….just before 2015 joined us, we got the welcome, long-delayed news that all our English embryos,\u00a0tied up for almost two years, had finally arrived in the United States.<\/p>\n

So we can now hope that some “Little Norahs<\/em>” will soon be capering around the pastures.\u00a0 That’s “Big Norah<\/em>” on the right and her breeder, Ivan Rowe of Goldings Farm<\/em> in Cornwall.\u00a0 Norah, Buttercup<\/em> and Snowdrop<\/em> had been quarantined thanks to a minute gnat that carried the Schmallenburg virus across the Channel.<\/p>\n

The virus can cause birth defects and even death\u00a0in calves and, because it was something of a mystery to the experts, they closed down the export of all genetic material.\u00a0 British authorities decided months back that the situation was under control, but the USDA took some convincing and quite a few tests before lifting the ban.\u00a0 The doctors on both sides of the Atlantic we\u00a0dealt with to resolve the situation were all professional, cooperative and quite firm.\u00a0 Bureaucrats that were a pleasure to deal with, even as we lost round after round.<\/p>\n

For those who are new to the subject, Thistle Hill formed a partnership with two other Devon farms to import pure English Devon genetics because the breed is being diluted overseas and we felt it was important to protect the traditional “real thing”.<\/p>\n

Seven Devon farmers who, like Ivan, shared our passion\u00a0went out of their way to open their pastures (and their homes) to us in our search for just the right pedigrees.\u00a0 Cows and bulls were paired up over there, the cows flushed, and the embryos sent here for implantation.\u00a0 We were about half-completed when the Schmallenburg virus struck.<\/p>\n

\"20101021_851\"<\/a>The heroine in all this was Stella Scholes of Bovine Genetics in England.\u00a0 She runs the clinic where we did all our embryo work and she kept after the officials, handled the lab work and the paperwork, until finally she had her “charges” on the plane and headed to the Colonies.\u00a0 I think the picture shows exactly what a delightful and competent person she is.<\/p>\n

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….just before 2015 joined us, we got the welcome, long-delayed news that all our English embryos,\u00a0tied up for almost two years, had finally arrived in the United States. So we can now hope that some “Little Norahs” will soon be capering around the pastures.\u00a0 That’s “Big Norah” on the right and her breeder, Ivan Rowe of Goldings Farm in Cornwall.\u00a0 Norah, Buttercup and Snowdrop had been quarantined thanks to a minute gnat that carried the Schmallenburg virus across the Channel. The virus can cause birth defects and even death\u00a0in calves and, because it was something of a mystery to the experts, they closed down the export of all genetic material.\u00a0 British authorities decided months back that the situation was under control, but the USDA took some convincing and quite a few tests before lifting the ban.\u00a0 The doctors on both sides of the Atlantic we\u00a0dealt with to resolve the situation were all professional, cooperative and quite firm.\u00a0 Bureaucrats that were a pleasure to deal with, even as we lost round after round. For those who are new to the subject, Thistle Hill formed a partnership with two other Devon farms to import pure English Devon genetics because the breed is being diluted overseas and we felt it was important to protect the traditional “real thing”. Seven Devon farmers who, like Ivan, shared our passion\u00a0went out of their way to open their pastures (and their homes) to us in our search for just the right pedigrees.\u00a0 Cows and bulls were paired up over there, the cows flushed, and the embryos sent here for implantation.\u00a0 We were about half-completed when the Schmallenburg virus struck. The heroine in all this was Stella Scholes of Bovine Genetics in England.\u00a0 She runs the clinic where we did all our embryo work and she kept after the officials, handled the lab work and the paperwork, until finally she had her “charges” on the plane and headed to the Colonies.\u00a0 I think the picture shows exactly what a delightful and competent person she is.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,115,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-england","category-stella-scholes","category-traditional-devon"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4052","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=4052"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4058,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4052\/revisions\/4058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}