Dexter Cattle For Sale Discussion Board

I was disappointed in the general response to this subject. I confess I was somewhat miffed at the reference to ’rare brindle’ Dexters, these appear in the Dexter where an original cross with a Jersey resurfaces in later generations, usually it remains hidden as long as the animal inherits the blac...

BSE is the nigger in the woodpile, and the infuriating thing is that although we are tied up in all the corresponding precautionary regulations, the Dexter breed is the only one of any size that has never gone down with it, and in my opinion is almost certainly immune. Every animal that is to go fo...

BSE is the nigger in the woodpile, and the infuriating thing is that although we are tied up in all the corresponding precautionary regulations, the Dexter breed is the only one of any size that has never gone down with it, and in my opinion is almost certainly immune. Every animal that is to go fo...

Whoops, I think there is a misunderstanding here, I am speaking from my own experience. With my cows in cubicles, I thought it preferable to let them out, while I did the tractor work cleaning out, rather than crowd them up in one quarter, and work round them. To begin with, I left them out for sev...

Whoops, I think there is a misunderstanding here, I am speaking from my own experience. With my cows in cubicles, I thought it preferable to let them out, while I did the tractor work cleaning out, rather than crowd them up in one quarter, and work round them. To begin with, I left them out for sev...

Hello Issy, Wishing you luck with your Dexters, may they give you many years of pleasure. On such a small area, I would be very hesitant about electrified strip grazing. My experience is that the cattle spend their time trying to eat under it, and it punishes the ground badly, particularly in winte...

Hello Issy, Wishing you luck with your Dexters, may they give you many years of pleasure. On such a small area, I would be very hesitant about electrified strip grazing. My experience is that the cattle spend their time trying to eat under it, and it punishes the ground badly, particularly in winte...

Duncan is correct in the yields necessary to gain CM’s or RM’s. The R.M. was won when they had three C.M’s, and a bull gained his, after three of his daughters had qualified` for a C.M. Licensing was dropped by the government when they realised that inspecting a bull’s appearance, could not give an...

Duncan is correct in the yields necessary to gain CM’s or RM’s. The R.M. was won when they had three C.M’s, and a bull gained his, after three of his daughters had qualified` for a C.M. Licensing was dropped by the government when they realised that inspecting a bull’s appearance, could not give an...

Thank you Penny for all your kind observations. I was so sorry to hear you lost your animal, I always thought the contiguous culls were the most unkind of all. Whether the Rare Breed support would have saved my herd, I don’t know, but the promise was something I held on to, in an effort to remain s...

Thank you Penny for all your kind observations. I was so sorry to hear you lost your animal, I always thought the contiguous culls were the most unkind of all. Whether the Rare Breed support would have saved my herd, I don’t know, but the promise was something I held on to, in an effort to remain s...