{"id":4832,"date":"2016-04-22T07:29:19","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T11:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=4832"},"modified":"2016-04-23T13:14:31","modified_gmt":"2016-04-23T17:14:31","slug":"thistle-hill-east-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/thistle-hill-east-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"Thistle Hill East….revisited…."},"content":{"rendered":"

….the other day we featured our young cow “Bribery<\/em>” at Bovine Genetics near Cambridge.\u00a0 Actually the village is called “Bishops Itchington”.\u00a0 (Much of the fun in England is in the town names.)\u00a0 Now here is ” Ashott Barton Tulip<\/em>“, who has also completed flushing.\u00a0 Scroll down below the picture for more information.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_1276\"<\/a>A second shipment of embryos from both animals is flying across the Atlantic as this is being written.\u00a0 (4.22.16)\u00a0 All the English genetics we import, for ourselves and for Traditional Devon<\/em>\u2122, land at Chicago’s O’Hare airport.\u00a0 From there they’re trucked to Adel, Iowa.<\/p>\n

Embryos and semen are stored at Hawkeye Services until we’re ready for them.\u00a0 Then, it’s back on a truck to O’Hare and a flight here, or South Carolina, or North Carolina or Georgia.\u00a0\u00a0 Talk about the “global economy”…..all focused on producing and protecting the best traditional English genetics at Thistle Hill….and Walker Century Farms in Anderson, SC.<\/p>\n

We began in 2010 and it was almost too late.\u00a0 After quite a bit of research, we convinced seven English farmers who had the best pure Devon we could find, to join our project.\u00a0 Already three of those farms have “gone out”, the herds dispersed, the genetics blended with less pure lines.\u00a0 We owe a great debt to Essington Park, Garradon\u00a0and Ashott Barton.<\/p>\n

But they’ll live on in the “America”.\u00a0 We’ve set aside 25 Devon to serve as recips and the embryos will go in next month.\u00a0 We trust and pray that the English Devon herd\u00a0 in America will double in size early next year.<\/p>\n

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….the other day we featured our young cow “Bribery” at Bovine Genetics near Cambridge.\u00a0 Actually the village is called “Bishops Itchington”.\u00a0 (Much of the fun in England is in the town names.)\u00a0 Now here is ” Ashott Barton Tulip“, who has also completed flushing.\u00a0 Scroll down below the picture for more information. A second shipment of embryos from both animals is flying across the Atlantic as this is being written.\u00a0 (4.22.16)\u00a0 All the English genetics we import, for ourselves and for Traditional Devon\u2122, land at Chicago’s O’Hare airport.\u00a0 From there they’re trucked to Adel, Iowa. Embryos and semen are stored at Hawkeye Services until we’re ready for them.\u00a0 Then, it’s back on a truck to O’Hare and a flight here, or South Carolina, or North Carolina or Georgia.\u00a0\u00a0 Talk about the “global economy”…..all focused on producing and protecting the best traditional English genetics at Thistle Hill….and Walker Century Farms in Anderson, SC. We began in 2010 and it was almost too late.\u00a0 After quite a bit of research, we convinced seven English farmers who had the best pure Devon we could find, to join our project.\u00a0 Already three of those farms have “gone out”, the herds dispersed, the genetics blended with less pure lines.\u00a0 We owe a great debt to Essington Park, Garradon\u00a0and Ashott Barton. But they’ll live on in the “America”.\u00a0 We’ve set aside 25 Devon to serve as recips and the embryos will go in next month.\u00a0 We trust and pray that the English Devon herd\u00a0 in America will double in size early next year.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,36,141],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-england","category-traditional-devon","category-tulip"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4832","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=4832"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4839,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4832\/revisions\/4839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}