The pay-off….

….regular readers know that we’ve made repeated trips to southwest England in recent years and, with two American partners, have selected outstanding pure, traditional English bulls and cows…collected embryos from the matings….and imported them to the United States.  And here’s the result:  a three-month old bull calf out of Goldings Norah by Millennium Falcon.  We just saw him recently at the farm in Georgia where he was calved and we couldn’t be more pleased.

Doubly pleased.  There on the same pasture was his brother, another Falcon sired bull calf out of a cow from another great, historic British herd, Essington Park.  These two, with a third British bull that calved here at Thistle Hill, gives us a trio of great prospects for a partnership we’re calling Traditional Devon America.

It’s a long time, and a lot of hours, and a lot of tramping soggy English pastures finding the candidates, checking and double-

checking pedigrees, going through the red tape of import restrictions, finding recipient cows, and then waiting out the implant and birthing process.  Wooz and Georgia farmer Doyle Unruh deserve a good and relieved laugh together after all that.

I can’t describe the joy we felt at seeing these young bulls on Doyle’s pasture.  It more than rewarded us for all the work, and it was with renewed excitement that we left Doyle with another canister full of more embryos for the next chapter in the history of Traditional Devon American

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