Dexter Cattle For Sale Discussion Board

You do need at least to discover your lime requirements, but don’t assume you need other fertilizer. If your soil is acid no other treatments will be effective. When I moved her 40 years ago. I limed the lot, I was advised I would need to do so on a regular basis, I have sampled since but have need...

I used to feed a maximum of 15lbs potatoes when I had a dairy herd of Dexters during the war and was under the impression this was the optimum. They certainly milked well on this quantity, and I was a great fan for them in moderation. I would think 50lbs was far in excess for a Dexter. I agree with...

In the days of horns we recognised Dexter horns and Kerry horns, mine even today, when they are allowed to grow, are uniform and Dexter, but the longevity is excellent, and the animals are very uniform. I have in the last two or three years had two animals live and breed to 20 plus when I had them ...

In the days of horns we recognised Dexter horns and Kerry horns, mine even today, when they are allowed to grow, are uniform and Dexter, but the longevity is excellent, and the animals are very uniform. I have in the last two or three years had two animals live and breed to 20 plus when I had them ...

You are what you eat! I would go along with Clive on this one, I think that premise has more future than the controversy over A2. I also agree with Duncan - milk in this country has so small a margin that a niche market would still not give a large enough premium to make Dexter A2 milk an attractiv...

“Current claims for the health benefits of A2 milk need to remain restricted and comply with the appropriate regulations on food claims.” I read it to say that experiments to date have proved nothing. I had understood that much of the publicity was conducted by vested interests, and I believe that ...

Correction, I should have checked instead of relying on my memory! My apologies to Dr Harper for mis-spelling his name. In any case the attribution should have been to Dr Williams - page 57 'Proceedings of the World Congress'. He refers to the bulldog calf and I would have thought that the heterozy...

As recently as last year Beverley McCulloch the historian, having spent time investigating the Dexter stated they were venerated in Ireland from as early as the Neolithic ‘Stone Age’. He quotes from the Book of Kells, dating from around AD 800; and also refers to the book of the Dun Cow’ – which wa...

Yes, Dexters do milk well for their size, but as Duncan says today even herds of 300 – 400 Holsteins have difficulty in making a profit. The problem with a Dexter too, is that some overheads are going to double up – vets bills are per head. Buildings will not house twice the number in the case of t...

The Dexter is definitely dual-purpose. The Royal insist on either beef or dairy they will not consider the classification of dual purpose. Since we were not prepared to give up the milk connotation we felt it wiser to adopt the dairy classes. Many milking breeds are reasonable for beef while beef s...

Ken there is no way of ascertaining how many lethals have been born, many newcomers see no necessity to record them, and some old hands deliberately don’t. Most experienced breeders use one sound parent in order to avoid the ultimate problem, but this discussion has also included the drawbacks of t...