Dexter Cattle For Sale Discussion Board

I would recommend crystalix hi mag green tub. we leave them out autumn through the winter until the summer. they seem to like them.
if its a small herd a few of the suckler rolls in a bucket is very good to keep them tame.

welcome to Dexters

dom

Had a strange call from a guy looking to buy my bull advertised on this site. It was just odd and his story, well i could not follow it. but basically he needed some cattle to kill for the 20th oct. the more he said the more the halal butcher scenario seemd to be more likely. I priced myself out of ...

I missed some of the cattle at Carlisle but i saw some. the good animals were getting good money. fit well prepared stock did ok. there was at least 1 irish buyer there who bought anything up to a certain value. there where other buyers having a go a friend of ours bought 6 cows with calves, and he ...

I outdoor calve and i dont think i can ring them in a decent time scale. so we cut tthem all in the spring. i think this is very late but it seems to work for us. the cost is not as bad as you think either.

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Just putting this to the top. My wee bull Dougal has just been very kindly put on the for sale web pages. he will be at Carlisle. he is no show animal so i dont how he will behave having just been halter brocken and a ring fitted 2 weeks ago. he has a good temprament and good to work with. he is a g...

Looks more like a bullock, not got a bulls head at all. nice though, good story.

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Great write up, but its killing me........ where is the catalogue!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i wish they would get it done!

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Selling my first animal through a show/sale at carlisle. its a bull, and i am just getting halter traiined. is ther such a thing as a collar that i can use to keep him tethered up, i am worried that keeping him on the halter it will mark his hair and muzzle. dont really knoww what i am doing but i h...

Cant wait!!

this is the first time in years i will be able to attend, so great to hear there are lots of entries.

is the catalogue available yet?


dom

Neighbour has the cows in, possibly for the winter. the kind of operation they are i doubt they will see the grass till next june. 180 head here, 280 head across the river all plus calves. They turned out 1st week of june. this is the guy that wrote the other week in the scottish farmer that he was ...

i meant the cull value in my eyes was 1000 for cow 300 for calf. so when i got 1500 i was above that.

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This is happened a couple of times to me recently. The first with a couple of dexter cows and calves that went to a ice cream parlour/ visitor farm. They ended up seperated and at the local market. i managed to come across 1 completely by accident and felt dreadful. they had left the peace and quiet...

What goes through your minds when you find out one of your breeding cows you have sold goes straight to slaughter, and the calf sold off. Do you think well business is business, fair price paid and good luck to you. do you feel any regret? Do you think i was obviously not charging enough, (see previ...

My suggestion is dont run before you can walk. get some.... eat some.... then see where it leads you.

if its beef production your thinking of and not going anywhere near shorts then genetic testing is surely unecessary, as would be linear assesing.

keep it simple.

dom

With the help of Duncans bull Burnside Deacon, i have some polled beasts walking about now. i also have alittle bull that has some polled genes from another line and i hope with some luck to get something homozygous at some point. i am doing alot of crossing so cant promise to have any futre pure De...