Dexter Cattle For Sale Discussion Board

Local dairy farmers? or try http://farmingforum.co.uk/forums/forum.php, it'll get hundreds or thousands of reads quickly. There'll be people near you I guess.

Good luck.

Perhaps people are just keeping them for beef and don't want to register? Not much different here. I have sold loads over the years and almost none have been to registered people. They just want to do beef, usually for themselves and friends only.

What a shame, and a loss. We haven't met Ian but we had lots of communications when you were helping as an advisor, and I can't think of anyone more reasonable and capable.

Yea, we're about 500-600 feet Rob.

Little Belters that's the one.

Here's a pic from a few years ago. I show this one because those 5 beasts were on a tiny 1/4 acre field for about 2 months, the grass growth was amazing. http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x154/cliveataylor/BroomcroftReds.jpg And one with the local power station way in the background... http://i187....

I asked on a forum what to call my Stabiliser X Dexters recently. Best answer was Destabilisers

Just done 40 acres round bale hay today. Got some ryegrass/red clover silage as well from a month ago. Lovely weather, will hopefully be doing a 2nd cut on the RC soon. Glad to have aftermath now as running low on grazing. Could do with some rain now.

I think Beldex is best one so far.

Dexobel
Dexterbel
Beltydex

Nice calf, and the cow as well.

Open an account with photobucket.com or the like, upload your images there. Then click on them, copy the "direct link", then do a post on here, click the image (Img) button, and paste in the address of the image. i.e. this image is not on here, it's just a link to my photobucket image. Thi...

Cresswell Dexters wrote:Striped baby number 2 arrived yesterday and has a perfect stripe and looks very like a Beltie. I think they are slightly bigger than the pure Dexter calves but no problems yet! Will keep you posted.

We'd love to see a photo!

I thought Belties were wild. A friend of mine had a herd and he had to get rid of them, found them difficult he said. No experience myself. He's now got a herd of wild Limos .

Put it like this, if you under-finish a steer, then that's not good really. But if you over-finish, it's not such a problem, if a problem at all. Conversely I'd say the exact opposite, maybe because I prefer lean beef, I think what I was trying to say is that if you are finishing off grass, within ...

davidw wrote:We are getting just over £4 a kilo ungraded [but paying slaughter fees]. Farmers Guardian reported last week that native breeds - Hereford cross - are fetching £4.55 a kilo.

£4.55 Wow