Dexter Cattle For Sale Discussion Board

Inger

Our Salty is a son of your bull then. His father was Hiyu Salty Rambler 4th. Salty Pioneer is a non-carrier as well. His calves averaged 26 kgs at birth, whereas another bull we are using is a smaller non-carrier bull, who produces much smaller calves, which are usually born only a day or two off t...

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This is one of the reasons that I prefer long legged Dexters. You don't get the complications of teats near ground level.

Is there anyway of getting the cow to stand on a platform? Then the calf can get hold of the teats a lot easier. A bit like a dairy goat stand.

Inger

That's unusually early though Margaret. I've never had a calf arrive earlier than 14 weeks early. The calves were out of a Salty bull as well co-incidently. Must be something in the genes.

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I allow them 2 weeks before their due date, to 2 weeks after their due date. Anything outside that and the due date is incorrect. It must have been either a previous cycle or a later cycle to the cycle observed. One of our bulls consistantly threw calves that were born 10 days to 2 weeks earlier th...

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We have Sky TV. Is the Food Channel on that, the same as your Lifestyle Food channel Wagra?

Is BB2 on the internet?

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I wish we could see it here in NZ.

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If you've kept up with Microsoft's virus protection updates, you'll be fine. It is a good practice not to open any attachments that you are not expecting, or don't know what they contain.

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Our Autumn is going well. Lovely sunny weather, could probably do with a day of rain actually and the day time temps are still up in the high 20s. Night time temps are down to 10 degree C, but the soil temp is remaining in the high teens, so the grass is still growing nicely and should stand us in ...

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Leaving it up to the butcher as to how long to hang a carcass for, is good advice. I also ask him to choose which cuts would be best from each part of the animal, according to its age. We eat a lot of our older Dexters (I don't like to waste meat) and I let the butcher decide which cuts of meat are...

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We've had a bull castrated at well over a year, by the vet and later sold him as a 2 year old at the sales yards. We didn't eat him ourselves. He was only partially entire because I didn't ring him correctly as a calf (one of my first efforts) and the vet had to complete the job after it became obv...

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Ours suck water up into their mouths and gulp it down. Its amazing how much they can get through. I've got to remember to turn the timer on every day or so, cause they can get through a bath tub full in no time. We don't have ice on our water troughs though.

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The arrival of every calf is special. Some arrivals are more memorable than others, especially if things go wrong. I had a heifer decide that her new born calf was the devil incarnate and she had to kill it. It took me a good hour of holding the mother off and calming her down before maternal insti...

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It's best to take orders first, then add some extra for later sales. That way, you know what the approximate sales are likely to be and people know how many Christmas presents they've already catered for.

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Glad we don't have to report calvings that arrive more than 10 days early. The calves of our first herd sire (of Salty bloodlines) threw claves that frequently arrive 10 to 14 days earlier than a normal gestation. They did this every year, so I just got used to subtracting a week or two from the es...

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Quite right Ann, the dam and granddam of a bull is VERY important. After all, its his daughters that we're interested in. For my part though, I'm not interested in fostering extra calves onto my cows (we've got 20 cows at the moment) as its too much like hard work. I'm more interested in a good sha...

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