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<\/a>Cotteys and took this picture of one of their cows.\u00a0 One look and you’ll see why we think it’s a tragedy that the Cotteys feel they have to leave Devon’s ranks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"….our visit to the new two of our partners had to be short because of the intrusion of real life.\u00a0 Margaret Elliott’s mother had been hospitalized unexpectedly earlier that day…and Angus and Joy Cottey were both recovering from very serious illness. We confined ourselves then to brief courtesy calls.\u00a0 We were\u00a0pleased to see that our Falcon’s brother, Millennium Monte, who had been ill himself, was doing much better now that he was under the care of Margaret at her Cutcombe Farm. We also paid our respects to one of the grand old bulls of English Devon, Bywood Jasper, who is living out his days in semi-retirement at Cutcombe.\u00a0 Jasper’s breeder, Ken Farmer, passed away not long ago and, by coincidence,\u00a0two of Jasper’s sons have wound up at our colleague’s farms:\u00a0 Cracker at the Kew herd and Christopher at the Goldings herd.\u00a0 More about that in our next post. Continuing our “convalescent tour”, we stopped at Garradon\u00a0and were relieved to find both Angus Cottey and his wife Joy as vigorous as ever.\u00a0 Still, sadly, they told us they had decided they couldn’t maintain the pace any longer and planned to disperse the herd. It’s a great loss for Devon in England as well as Traditional Devon America\u2122 because the Cottey’s have been doing really well in recent shows and developing an outstanding herd.\u00a0 By coincidence another of our friends, Juliet Cleave, visited the Cotteys and took this picture of one of their cows.\u00a0 One look and you’ll see why we think it’s a tragedy that the Cotteys feel they have to leave Devon’s ranks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,87,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cottey","category-elliott","category-england"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4348","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=4348"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4356,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4348\/revisions\/4356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>\u00a0pleased to see that our Falcon’s <\/em>brother,<\/em> Millennium Monte<\/em>, who had been ill himself, was doing much better now that he was under the care of Margaret at her Cutcombe Farm.<\/p>\n