• Thistle Hill Alumni Club….

    ….has opened a new branch at Franchesca’s Dawn Farm near Halifax, VA.  Not long ago Amie Herrara purchased one of herd bulls—U2—and here are the first results.  Amie was worried that one of her heifers was too small to successfully calve, but U2 handled the assignment. Amie writes:  “we’ve been pleased with them all!  The calves are growing so much better than our past calves.  I just wanted to let you know how much we appreciate having the big guy in our herd.” For some reason, Wooz named U2 “Double Trouble” and it’s her one mistake.  He played a big role in the development of our herd and we’re pleased he’s…

  • Thistle Hill alumni club….

    ….it was a good weekend for heifer calves.  This little one (and again not so little) was born at Linda Hendrix and son, John’s, farm in South Carolina.  We sold mom as a bred heifer…the “bred” by Thistle Hill U2, who has done great things for our herd, too. Mom incidentally is a line bred 688 daughter.