Dexter Cattle For Sale Discussion Board

In the South East we have had significantly different weather than the rest of the country. In the farmers weekly a couple of weeks ago a farmer from Ashford was saying that his spring barley was below par as he had received no significant rain since easter and his crops where suffering from the ef...

I attended a farm sale at the weekend and bumped into an aquaintence that makes and supplies a lot of hay in the area, I was already with a couple of friends that make and sell quite a bit. The four of us there chatting and the subject of price cropped up, all agreed that hay would be expensive thi...

The Sussex Cattle Society has a breed sale twice a year at Ashford, this year they have bought in an early registration to enable catalogues to be sent out earlier as they now have pictures of the bulls for sale and also the figures from those that record. All animals have the owners name against t...

If my memory serves me right, I seem to remember that when big bag silage first started it was just a round bale put into a big bag and the air was sucked out using an industrial hoover. It was stacked using a spike and the holes sealed using adhesive patches. Bale handlers, shrink wrap and bale wr...

The problem is Clive that there are not enough Dexters being kept commercially, until breeders see the need it will not happen. I think it must happen eventually but trying to convince someone with a few cows and lots of show success that they need to record this and that at regular intervals will ...

Being in the 'sunny south east' we do seem to get less rain than other parts of the UK. I have been able to gather my hay for at least the last 5 years without any rain whilst it was in the swath. Our main problem when making hay is the almost non existant re-growth. I think the biggest part of hay...

The comments from Clive and myself are not racist, we are British and have a sense of humour that may differ from people living in other parts of the world. If America and Americans (or anyone from any race or country come to that) wants to put themselves in a position to be ridiculed then they onl...