Dexter Cattle For Sale Discussion Board

Anna

Does the Dexter-Beef-Online web site not exist anymore?

Anna

Saffy, The breed is Fjall (Swedish Mountain), but it is a branch of the breed that has been very little mixed with the modern highly productive type of the breed. The cows from her and a few more farms (very remote farms in the mountain region) are preserved as an own gene pool within the Fjall bre...

Anna

Found this picture while browsing a commercial image bank: http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/3360304/Hulton-Archive Is Dora a famous Dexter Lady? She is cute. (I collect pictures with ladies and cows. May I share another favourite? This is Karin Eriksson, an heroine for us interested in old cattle ...

Anna

What a guy!

Who is Kingshill Gullasch? Is he an AI bull? From earlier days or contemporary?

Anna

domsmith wrote:sorry, no, we wean our dairy bulls off bucket milk at 8 weeks, our sucklers stay with mothers for 9 months. we have 2 seperate enterprises. beef and veal

dom

Ok, now I follow.

So the 8 months diary rose veal makes ok meat if you don´t hunt for fabulous taste, but is nothing like finished beef?

Anna

your beef is wasted as veal clive, try it and see. veal is tender and lean works well with sauces, but dexter is sublime as matured beef. as to profit it will be a balance of reduced wintering costs over reduced income. butchering and killing to be thought through. we wean our bulls at 8 weeks feed...

Anna

I have read somewhere (American site?) that some give their cows bicarbonate free chioce in a little box. As with powdered minerals. Have anyone tried that? Is it a good idea, would they eat it if they needed it?

Anna

Can I bring this topic up again? I am trying to write a short text abut the origins of the Dexter, and again I am puzzled and confused. What is the contemporary view on the connection between Dexters and Kerrys? What do you (I am now addressing all Dexter owners worldwide) say when you tell the sto...

Anna

Saffy wrote:H is called Stonechat and has wanted to be friends with humans since birth and prefers her Mag Rolls hand fed, taking them from the flat of the hand like a horse.

Sounds like a lovely Dexter and a future favourite cow.

Anna

Gordon Brown moment ;-) (It´s probably not easy for him either.) Anyway I am so pleased to hear that the stockjudging man thought of H as a very promising heifer. I have looked at the pictures one hundred times, and every time I think "I would pick E and H no matter what others say". But ...

Anna

Saffy wrote:Do you milk the Swedish Fjall?

Not yet, but the plan is to milk her when she calves. Hopefully rather soon.

Anna

Ok Saffy.. ..but I am ashamed of my dexters right now. They have grown too fat this winter. The really broad one is due in May. Their friend is a Swedish fjall cow, an old polled diary breed from the northern parts of the country. Not much to eat yet.. http://underhund.com/miscpics/kossor1.jpg

Anna

Saffy! Howcome there are so many Dexters in your fields, have you been out on raids stealing cattle? I remember when you bought a cow, a heifer, a bull calf and a steer, that was not a long time ago. I bougt a cow and a heifer calf 6 months earlier, and I now have: two cows. I guess your case of th...

Anna

Hi Saffy, I have a document stating the requriements for semen imported from UK to Sweden. If you are interested in checking it out, pm you email adress. I understand that collecting for export is a big thing to go thru and maybe that is not what you are planning. But IF semen from that handsome li...

Anna

Still some snow left. But spring fights and will hopefully win the battle. Sun yesterday, lots of rain today...

Soon I will let the cows out, they have been inside since the fence disapeared under the snow.

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