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The first one….
…not only our first calf of the season, he’s the first Falcon calf born in this country. He’s only a few minutes old here, already on his feet and walking; freshly tagged but still wet. Ashott Barton Millennium Falcon was the bull we found on our first trip to Devon and eventually was to become the anchor of Traditional Devon America, a partnership of three breeders sharing a love of Devon cattle and determined to preserve the traditional pure English genetic pool. His real mama is Goldings Snowdrop 113 (British pedigree records go back a long way.) The mating occurred in a clinic near Cambridge, the embryo frozen and shipped to the…
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Alright…that does it!
We’re booking our flight for Devon right now! This picture of Devon near storied Exmoor just came in from our English friend and colleague, Shiamala Comer, who has the good fortune to live there. She also is the breeder of Millenium Falcon, the sire of some of our Traditional Devon embryos near to hatching. We’ve fallen in love with Devon, not only for its namesake cows, but for the beauty of its scenery, and the warmth of its people. Actually, when we think of Devon, we include a wider area from Cambridge all the way down to Lands End….wherever we find our favorite cows and the people who breed them. And, truth…
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Congratulations….
…to our British colleague, Gavin Hunter of Tilbrook Grange, for the success of his new young bull, Victory. Victory won the recent three-county show in England and is the latest of a string of triumphs for Gavin and his bull program. Victory is 21-months old, the son of Tilbrook Kiwi. Unfortunately he doesn’t quite meet the stringent pedigree requirements we have for our Traditional English Devon project but we think he’s going to be a big success in England and we just thought you’d like a look at him. Tilbrook Cashtiller, of course, is the keystone of our Traditional Devon program and she’s sired a string of England’s top-selling bulls. …
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We invite your attention….
….to two new “boxes” on our home page. The first, is a link to Traditional Devon. For the past two years, much of our time has been spent in England searching out the very finest genetics for import to the United States. We’ve also tried to isolate what remains of more traditional Devon herds in the process. The idea is to provide more breeding latitude in the United States but also to preserve, in one location, beautiful English Devon as they once were. The link is www.traditionaldevon.com The second is a box that links to animals that we have for sale. It’s separated into three sections: cows, bulls and heifers. While…
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Just a tease…
We’re just back from North Carolina where we picked up nine young heifers and bulls…probably the largest infusion of genetics into our herd since we began. Five of the calves, including this one, are English Devon that we own in partnership. The others are daughters and sons of the famed Rotokawa 688 and a few of those are line bred. It was a great experience, sorting through our calves with partner Bill Walker, and selecting which would head to South Carolina and which to Virginia. DeKalb Wells and his family did a wonderful job raising these unique youngsters from embryos and we thank them. Wooz and I also want to…
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Cashtiller does it again….
…was the heading on the email we received recently from an English friend, Gavin Hunter. Once again his magnificent cow Cashtiller has sired a bull that won top price at the national Devon show. That’s three straight bull calves and Gavin, throwing caution to the wind, had actually named this bull Hat Trick. Sports fans know that three-in-a-row is called a “hat trick. We actually saw Hat Trick two years ago as a youngster, still at Cashtiller’s side, when we visited Tilbrook Grange on a Devon tour. But we only had eye’s for the famous Cashtiller and quickly arranged with Gavin to flush her and import embryos to the States. Those calves…