{"id":6163,"date":"2020-04-23T23:09:23","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T03:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=6163"},"modified":"2020-04-27T10:03:38","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T14:03:38","slug":"the-thistle-hill-alumni-assn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/the-thistle-hill-alumni-assn\/","title":{"rendered":"The Thistle Hill Alumni Assn…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

…well maybe not technically.\u00a0 But he was bred here and went on to serve at Rich Hamilton\u2019s Elim Springs Farm for the past 8 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Rojo<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

His name is Rojo and he\u2019s been used in the Elim Springs meat business for the past decade and is still going strong.  Rich uses him as a terminal sire on his Senepol cow herd and it\u2019s a winning combination!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rojo\u2019s pedigree on the dam side is packed with well-known Devon greats including Noyl Boy, Buckeye and Kinloch.  As for his sire, he is the first bull that made a major impact on our cows: Watson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We found Watson at Don and Heather Minto\u2019s farm in Rhode Island.  He was all Rotokawa with 667 line breeding in his history.  It was our introduction to what an impact a prepotent bull can make on a herd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some of his daughters are mainstays of our herd…still productive a decade later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…well maybe not technically.\u00a0 But he was bred here and went on to serve at Rich Hamilton\u2019s Elim Springs Farm for the past 8 years. His name is Rojo and he\u2019s been used in the Elim Springs meat business for the past decade and is still going strong.  Rich uses him as a terminal sire on his Senepol cow herd and it\u2019s a winning combination! Rojo\u2019s pedigree on the dam side is packed with well-known Devon greats including Noyl Boy, Buckeye and Kinloch.  As for his sire, he is the first bull that made a major impact on our cows: Watson. We found Watson at Don and Heather Minto\u2019s farm in Rhode Island.  He was all Rotokawa with 667 line breeding in his history.  It was our introduction to what an impact a prepotent bull can make on a herd. Some of his daughters are mainstays of our herd…still productive a decade later. David<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17,13,146],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breeding","category-bulls","category-david","category-thistle-hill-farm"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6163","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=6163"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6176,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6163\/revisions\/6176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}