Dexter Cattle For Sale Discussion Board

Best way is to fit a inline tap near to trough, then slow the water flow to a trickle, the key to success with this method is to get the flow adjusted so the trough is nearly always filling but the cattle never run dry, easiest to start with a empty trough and slow flow, paul

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On the subject of tb, I still don't think that defra the government and the likes realise quite how many badgers there are in the country, I would even go as far to say their estimates would not even be within 50% of the population, what I do no is that in the last 15 years the badger population has...

There never is many other dairy breeds there but it's always a good show and you know when you get a prize there it always means a good deal, perhaps they could add the dexters in with the beef animals like they did at royal Norfolk ? Vicky

We have just had a rigg back, he was 20 mth and hung for 3 weeks, the carcase graded at o-3 and he was straight off conservation grazing and went 184 cold, we aired on the side off caution as we sent him in as he was being a pain and didn,t fit in with any other groups of cattle, we didn't have top,...

May be it is time the society implemented at an inspected sale a minimum upset price for all approved stock, a lot of sheep society's do this and it does put a bottom in the market, and stop poorer animals being entered

As I understand the law when we done our trailer tests through the company I work for ( does everything to the letter ) the tachometer bit is a very grey area and after seeking legal advice we do not require tachometers for agricultural based/type of work, if we followed the guidelines that Duncan m...

The first thing you really need to work out is how much weight are you going to be towing and what size trailer you have as this will narrow your options, there are not many motors that can tow 3.5 ton legally and most of the double cab jap motors are around 3 ,

I think I would have put in for a ag storage building, and not mentioned about housing the cattle. New stock housing in this area requires catchment tanks and concrete floors and jousts doubles the cost of everything, pretty sure for a ag storage building you do not require pp for under a certain si...

i would say as much as your vehicle will pull and then use a large detachable trough that will hold enough water to last them while you take bowser home to refill and take bowser back the next day, worked for us but soon connected to mains. water intake as said above will vary hugely with weather an...

Thank you so much for letting us know di, i have seen felicity a few times since melton and she had imformed me that he had settled in well with his new owner , He was very muched loved by me (vicky) as i had handled him since he was born till the day i loaded him up and many tears where shed !!! I...

What a dilemma though, this same person bought an in calf heifer from me for £500 a month ago. The showing heifer is worth £900 to me for beef next spring/summer. What are peoples thoughts on that? same here, they are worth about double hanging upside down on a hook. don't get too sentimental. if t...

last one i sold was 240kg cold, 0+4l @ £4 pk dw and i paid kill costs (£85) that was too a private customer wanted a whole carcase for a four way split with her friends, they made quite a saving considering what the carcase would have came to in boxes at £9.50. getting loads of interest in supplying...

the main question in the opening post was aimed towards the taste of a finished animal, grass verses cereal and by/products, cereal based ration will leave a harder fat cover that will be of a harder texture and not disperse as easily through the joint whilst cooking, in my opinion there is no subst...