{"id":750,"date":"2012-05-16T08:02:01","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T12:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=750"},"modified":"2012-05-16T08:02:01","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T12:02:01","slug":"a-gamble-pays-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/a-gamble-pays-off\/","title":{"rendered":"A gamble pays off…."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The smile stayed on Dr. Monica O’Brien’s face all afternoon, despite the heat.\u00a0 We were checking pregnancies, and again and again she reported:\u00a0 “Three months!”\u00a0 That was particularly gratifying since we had gambled this year, selling our herd bull Watson<\/em> and banking on his son, 2-year old U2 or Double Trouble<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Because of the uncertainty of putting a young bull with 24 grown cows, we kept him in an extra month.\u00a0 But it wasn’t necessary.\u00a0 He settled 75% of his charges in the first 22 days.\u00a0 All but two in the next month for a total of 94%.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>All in all, a performance that earned Double Trouble<\/em> bragging rights with his buddies when he returned to the bull pen.\u00a0 Of course, what counts is the calves.\u00a0 We won’t know about that until October.\u00a0 But so far Trouble<\/em> seems to be a chip off the old block.<\/p>\n

Of course, we’re proud of all our young bulls with genetics by Rotokawa 688, 93 and 974.\u00a0 Then there are our new British imports by the great bull Jaunty<\/em>.\u00a0 Thistle Hill has placed bulls in herds all across the eastern half of the United States.\u00a0 We hope you’ll think of us when you’re ready to start or upgrade your operation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The smile stayed on Dr. Monica O’Brien’s face all afternoon, despite the heat.\u00a0 We were checking pregnancies, and again and again she reported:\u00a0 “Three months!”\u00a0 That was particularly gratifying since we had gambled this year, selling our herd bull Watson and banking on his son, 2-year old U2 or Double Trouble. Because of the uncertainty of putting a young bull with 24 grown cows, we kept him in an extra month.\u00a0 But it wasn’t necessary.\u00a0 He settled 75% of his charges in the first 22 days.\u00a0 All but two in the next month for a total of 94%. All in all, a performance that earned Double Trouble bragging rights with his buddies when he returned to the bull pen.\u00a0 Of course, what counts is the calves.\u00a0 We won’t know about that until October.\u00a0 But so far Trouble seems to be a chip off the old block. Of course, we’re proud of all our young bulls with genetics by Rotokawa 688, 93 and 974.\u00a0 Then there are our new British imports by the great bull Jaunty.\u00a0 Thistle Hill has placed bulls in herds all across the eastern half of the United States.\u00a0 We hope you’ll think of us when you’re ready to start or upgrade your operation.<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breeding","category-bulls"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750","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=750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":753,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions\/753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}