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Actually, we have double reason to be proud.\u00a0 The Maurers brought 48 back home to breed to Traditional Devon’s \u2122 Highwayman and\u00a0<\/em>he barely let her get off the trailer before starting his courtship.\u00a0 Apparently has a thing about older women.<\/p>\n “48” was a daughter of Lakota’s H89….a bull we feel is one of the great unsung sires of the breed.\u00a0 And it’s probably not a coincidence that an even older cow in our herd—M180—is also by H89.\u00a0\u00a0So if longevity is important to you, you might want to watch the pedigrees for H89.<\/p>\n As for this young bull calf…the Maurers have already decided they’ll keep him intact.\u00a0 And Wooz says “first dibs”.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" …..Q48…was our first female when we switched to Devon in 2002.\u00a0 We made the short trip down to Madison, VA\u00a0 recently and Rich and Linda Maurer’s Springhaven\u00a0farm, where 48 is still producing outstanding calves at 13 years of age. Actually, we have double reason to be proud.\u00a0 The Maurers brought 48 back home to breed to Traditional Devon’s \u2122 Highwayman and\u00a0he barely let her get off the trailer before starting his courtship.\u00a0 Apparently has a thing about older women. “48” was a daughter of Lakota’s H89….a bull we feel is one of the great unsung sires of the breed.\u00a0 And it’s probably not a coincidence that an even older cow in our herd—M180—is also by H89.\u00a0\u00a0So if longevity is important to you, you might want to watch the pedigrees for H89. As for this young bull calf…the Maurers have already decided they’ll keep him intact.\u00a0 And Wooz says “first dibs”. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,97,140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breeding","category-highwayman","category-q48"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4825","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=4825"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4831,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4825\/revisions\/4831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}