{"id":4531,"date":"2015-10-30T06:45:46","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T10:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=4531"},"modified":"2015-10-30T16:11:27","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T20:11:27","slug":"end-of-an-era-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/end-of-an-era-3\/","title":{"rendered":"End of an era…."},"content":{"rendered":"

….the Jackpot era.\u00a0 At Thistle Hill, anyway.\u00a0 Jackpot being sized up by Charles Blankenship of Day Spring Farm in Altamont, Tennessee.\u00a0 As Jackpot loomed up in the morning haze, I heard Charles exclaim to himself:\u00a0 Wow!<\/p>\n


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About two minutes later, he owned him.<\/p>\n

Jackpot<\/em> is a son of Rotokawa 243<\/em>….Ken McDowall’s favorite bull.\u00a0 We ai-ed him to one of our cows that has a habit of producing great bull calves.\u00a0 And when Ken first saw him five years ago he said, “David, you’ve hit the Jackpot!”<\/p>\n

Charles and his wife Madeleine are developing\u00a0 quality grass fed meat operation near Nashville based on Red Angus, but friends convinced him crossing with Devon would not only give him a more manageable sized animal but bring along all the other desirable Devon traits.\u00a0 Devon-Red Angus crosses are becoming the breeding of choice among many large grass farmers.<\/p>\n

Photo by Duane Ard.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

….the Jackpot era.\u00a0 At Thistle Hill, anyway.\u00a0 Jackpot being sized up by Charles Blankenship of Day Spring Farm in Altamont, Tennessee.\u00a0 As Jackpot loomed up in the morning haze, I heard Charles exclaim to himself:\u00a0 Wow!   About two minutes later, he owned him. Jackpot is a son of Rotokawa 243….Ken McDowall’s favorite bull.\u00a0 We ai-ed him to one of our cows that has a habit of producing great bull calves.\u00a0 And when Ken first saw him five years ago he said, “David, you’ve hit the Jackpot!” Charles and his wife Madeleine are developing\u00a0 quality grass fed meat operation near Nashville based on Red Angus, but friends convinced him crossing with Devon would not only give him a more manageable sized animal but bring along all the other desirable Devon traits.\u00a0 Devon-Red Angus crosses are becoming the breeding of choice among many large grass farmers. Photo by Duane Ard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4531","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=4531"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4541,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4531\/revisions\/4541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}