{"id":440,"date":"2012-02-06T07:45:36","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T12:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=440"},"modified":"2012-02-06T08:09:57","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T13:09:57","slug":"what-we-do-at-thistle-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/what-we-do-at-thistle-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"What we do at Thistle Hill&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/aaaa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-441\" title=\"aaaa\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/aaaa-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>&#8230;.is help people create quality Devon herds.\u00a0 And this two-month old heifer, at Tomina Farms in Kentucky, is an example.\u00a0 She&#8217;s by a bull we sold Regina and Tom Tesnow just over a year ago and we get frequent updates.\u00a0 They&#8217;re not only happy with the results but with the bull&#8217;s temperament and role in their pasture; so happy that they&#8217;re thinking of collecting semen from him.<\/p>\n<p>Best, of course, is to create your own bull on your own pasture but that takes a little skill and a lot of\u00a0patience and luck.\u00a0 The greatest impact ever on our herd took place about four years ago when we spotted and bought a bull from Watson farm in Rhode Island.\u00a0 His daughters and sons are now producing their own great calves here and they&#8217;re often the first to go when &#8220;shoppers&#8221; come by.<\/p>\n<p>Certainly artificial insemination and embryo transplants can have a major role in a breeding program and we do a lot of that here.\u00a0 But we&#8217;ve found that calves produced that way sometimes lack the vitality of a natural calf.\u00a0 In our experience it takes at least two and more often three generations to get the results you&#8217;re hoping for from that &#8220;calf in the canister&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.is help people create quality Devon herds.\u00a0 And this two-month old heifer, at Tomina Farms in Kentucky, is an example.\u00a0 She&#8217;s by a bull we sold Regina and Tom Tesnow just over a year ago and we get frequent updates.\u00a0 They&#8217;re not only happy with the results but with the bull&#8217;s temperament and role in their pasture; so happy that they&#8217;re thinking of collecting semen from him. Best, of course, is to create your own bull on your own pasture but that takes a little skill and a lot of\u00a0patience and luck.\u00a0 The greatest impact ever on our herd took place about four years ago when we spotted and bought a bull from Watson farm in Rhode Island.\u00a0 His daughters and sons are now producing their own great calves here and they&#8217;re often the first to go when &#8220;shoppers&#8221; come by. Certainly artificial insemination and embryo transplants can have a major role in a breeding program and we do a lot of that here.\u00a0 But we&#8217;ve found that calves produced that way sometimes lack the vitality of a natural calf.\u00a0 In our experience it takes at least two and more often three generations to get the results you&#8217;re hoping for from that &#8220;calf in the canister&#8221;. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breeding","category-bulls"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440","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=440"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":449,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions\/449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}