TDA 18<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nTDA 18\u2026another Cashtiller daughter.\u00a0 She\u2019s out of 7 (see above) and sired by Thistle Hill Highwayman so she\u2019s got all our great English lines in this one package.\u00a0 An obvious candidate for eventual flushing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With more than 40 females of all ages this is by no means a complete inventory of the Thistle Hill herd\u2026English and American\u2026bred and open younger heifers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To arrange a visit at this perfect time of year in Virginia contact Church:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(214) 802-1283<\/p>\n\n\n\n
David<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2026are built around the great English cow Tilbrook Cashtiller. She won three consecutive national grand championships and a host of ribbons and silver. And to top it off three of her sons were the top selling bulls in the annual Devon breeders sale. We\u2019re indebted to Tibrook\u2019s Gavin Hunter\u2026who again today is serving as president of the British Society \u2026for permitting us to flush Cash twice! TDA 7 was out of that first flush 12 years ago and not showing her age. Her sire was another British champion, Cutcombe Jaunty. Cashtiller is gone now but we have several of her daughters and granddaughters and other descendants in our herd\u2026and some embryos for the future. TDA 20 is a special cow with Essington and Cutcombe genetics\u2026and is a Cashtiller granddaughter as well. Brian Drake of Essington Park was a leader among English breeders for 50 years and a respected judge for the British Society. His herd was small compared to many but the quality was unmatched by any herd we\u2019ve ever seen. TDA 23 was an English pairing and an early use of Ashott Barton\u2019s Falcon\u2026a stunning bull we found on Ivan Rowe\u2019s Goldings farm. We mated him to a cow from Brian Drake\u2019s Essington Farm. There are no two more experienced Devon breeders in all of England than Ivan and Brian. Both lamented the dilution of the Devon breed with outside genetics and after 70 years in the business gracefully exited the Devon scene. WMD 2 has joined us through a circuitous route. Her dam was the daughter of a beautiful cow, Lakota\u2019s R6. Mom was sold to Bill Ketner\u2019s farm in West Virginia and while hauling a bull one day Church spotted 2\u2026and the rest is history. Her sire was the English bull Highwayman. The result is this cow who looks more traditional than some of her herdmates. Note the deep Ruby red hair coat! F212 is another Highwayman son out of M180, a cow that deserves a webpage of her own. Before we began our English concentration, M180 was practically a bull machine! Many years the sale of her progeny paid the herd\u2019s feed bill. Visitors think her name should be Thank God since we always related that we had about 10 bull calves before (thank God) a heifer, 212, came along! TDA 18\u2026another Cashtiller daughter.\u00a0 She\u2019s out of 7 (see above) and sired by Thistle Hill Highwayman so she\u2019s got all our great English lines in this one package.\u00a0 An obvious candidate for eventual flushing. With more than 40 females of all ages this is by no means a complete inventory of the Thistle Hill herd\u2026English and American\u2026bred and open younger heifers. To arrange a visit at this perfect time of year in Virginia contact Church: (214) 802-1283 David<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120,4,19,176,13,148,175,97,5,74,130,177,174,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ashott-barton","category-cashtiller","category-cows","category-cutcombe","category-david","category-essington","category-goldings","category-highwayman","category-jaunty","category-rowe","category-tda-20","category-tda-23","category-tda-7","category-tilbrook"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7105","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=7105"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7117,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7105\/revisions\/7117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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