Dexter Cattle For Sale Discussion Board

I'm rubbish at quizzes but here's my attempt (since I remember the 70s)
1. Fat hen is a chenopodium, a weed
2. Combine harvester
3. Pass
4. Dunno, possibly worms or moles
5.Welly boots
6. Mastitis, nasty variant

Pleased to say Glen made a respectable £630 today.

Catalogues are now available online. A few older cows and a huge entry of heifers.
Only one bull, my entry Rosewood Glenkinchie. He's going there to sell but I won't accept ridiculously low bid compared to cull ring value.

Coraline made £480, which I was pleased with. Pattypan, who was Reserve Champion, only made £350. My other three were £200ish, disappointing. It was a mad rush with the cattle being sold much earlier than normal. I was running between the sheep & cattle lines, missed my Hebs being sold and only ...

Please note, this year judging is at 9.30am and SALE at 10am, before the Jacob etc sheep in the Main Ring, not afterwards as in previous years. Please come early if you might be interested in bidding. Pedigree entries are 3 bulls (young Planetree bull was Champion at Wolsingham show), 3 cows and 22 ...

Emerald, non-short, and Micaiah, short.

I've entered four heifers and Paul has one in. Coraline, light red and Pattypan black both born May 2020; Lucerne dark red born Aug 2020; Emerald & Micaiah black born Jan 2021. Coraline has been shown at Driffield (1st) & Royal Lancs (4th). Taking two of them to Wensleydale show, three to Wo...

Wolsingham Show is on Sat 4th Sept and schedules are now available. The classes have changed this year and are: Heifer born 2019 Heifer born 2020 Cow in calf or with calf at foot Matching pair from above classes All breeds have been given the same classes. It would be good to have more exhibitors, o...

It was a long day but fantastic to be out and meeting people again. Delighted with the cattle results: Zanfara Katrinka Champion and Zanfara Herr Mannelig Reserve.

First show of the year for me next week. Getting excited to be going out again.

None of us are in the same league as these chaps in lockdown. Put farmers tiger king cow into Google to see what I mean. Even better if someone with more computer skills than me could post an image or a link. (Rob - are you reading!). While it's not a Dexter, it is a small cow and I think that this ...

Very disappointed that there is no official obituary of Phillippa Laing in the 2020 Herd Year Book that arrived today.

It's now official that Wolsingham Show in Co. Durham (N.E. England) is planning to go ahead on the first weekend in September. The Dexter classes on the Saturday could do with more support. A couple of people locally with heifers might come but have never shown cattle before. I'm happy to host a sho...

There used to be a suggested price guide on the Dexter Soc website. It wasn't easy to find but somewhere on the beef marketing pages. It averaged out as roughly £11/kg across all cuts. I use the prices from a couple of years ago as a guideline for selling my beef and that gives me a return that cove...

Di, perhaps you could remind those who have forsaken this list for social media that this site is still active but could do with more correspondents to keep the interest going in the stock for sale.