Dexter Cattle For Sale Discussion Board

Charolais would probably be the worst bull you could choose for Dexter heifers no matter how big they are. A freind of mine who milked Jerseys used a Charolais for a year and swore 'never again'. He lost 2 very good cows and had problems with most others, I assisted with 4 or 5 births that had to b...

Brewers grains is a moist feed and you will need a clamp to store it and is normally in 20odd ton loads. It can spoil if it isn't covered corectly or clamp opened and not used quickly enough. If you google it you will find a lot of companies that supply and they will normally give a break down of p...

I am at the moment in the market for three Sussex heifers to go to the bull in April. I have already looked at some and the prices wanted for them was £1600 each. They where not the blood lines I was looking for so did not buy them, I have to look at some more next weekend. I will expect to pay bet...

I am in the process of becoming BVD free. I have one cow that has been vacinated and she is for sale. I only had the cows tested as the herd that I have hired a bull from is BVD free and did not wish to import a problem. This winter I will test every animal I have to enable me to have BVD free stat...

I know that farmers in general have a reputation for moaning about the weather and I do try to avoid being drawn into conversations about it as I do not wish to be branded a moaner. However, in the 'sunny south east' (quite true this year) we are desperate for some sustained wet weather. I realise ...

Nigel, maybe you should point out that you have no choice but to run a bull, in calf cows and cows with young calves at different times (good agricultural practice) in this field and point out the recent publicity ref cows attacking walkers. You could insinuate that the council could be seen to be ...

Louisa, I would gladly do a swap for 'some' of your rain. Because we are in the far south east we tend to only get the tail end of any frontal systems and most of the rain has petered out before it gets to us. There could be a real soaking to the west of London and by the time it reaches us we have...

“Wheat yields are down by about 0.5t/acre (1.2t/ha),” he said. So far the 12ha (30 acres) of Hereward had only averaged 7.4t/ha (3t/acre), due to drought in the spring. Above is an extract from an article from the Farmers Weekly website and is from a farmer a couple of miles from me. I have added i...

Dom, If you keep the bull with the cows all the time you must pull back your calving date. If a cow takes on her first season after calving she will calve roughly two months earlier. The reason I had run the bull with calving cows was to do just that. I am switching to January calving (because it s...

I often have a bull in with my cows when calving outside. He will know when they are in season and they will only get in calf when they are ready. Bulls are normally very good around calves and very tolerant of their antics. I had a young bull once that used to play with the calves, chasing and bei...