Dexter Cattle For Sale Discussion Board

A good stock fence with two strands of wire on the top is in my view the best fence there is if it is put up correctly. If you add horses to the mix then add an electric to the top, problem solved. Horses won't go near the electric so cannot catch themselves on the barbs. My cattle have at times th...

Hi Paul, I am looking for a Sussex bull, but I am being really critical as to what I want to buy. As Sussex are naturally horned the bull will have to be 'graded up' and although there are plenty of development bulls around it is a case of looking for one that has suficient Sussex blood in it for m...

No Clive, I havn't done any investigations yet as I have just had a total rethink about my farm policy and have outed all my cows with calves at foot. I am going for January/February calving and it will be a couple of years before I will actually need a weigher. I only have two heifers calving this...

As soon as I decided to get cattle I purchased a cattle handling system and a crush. Although it was a large expence it has proved invaluable. I am often on my own, and to be able to handle cattle safely and with ease has been a godsend not just for me but also for the cattle. I have in the past as...

At Ashford last week cull heifers under 48 months where average121.5 pence a kilo. Top price was 139.5 pence, both are liveweight prices.
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Tim, I no longer keep dexters, but when I did I certainly had no problems with them. If they mistrust you they will rather move away when you approach rather than have a confrontation. My animals calved indoors and where penned seperately for a couple of days after calving, castrating and ear taggi...

Thankfully in the south east we have not had as much rain as some. After a very dry summer and being on light land we seem to be coping well with the sometimes very heavy rain that we are getting at the moment. My cattle are still out and eating grass, no hay yet but grass is getting short and I wi...

I'm in Kent and have a number of agreements. A 5 acre plot with my buildings on is £360 plus VAT a year, 10 acres of pasture that I fenced £100 per acre, 13 acres pasture that I give about 20kg of beef, 23 acres that my neighbour has for hay which I graze for about 3 months £100 per month. You just...

An ibc is an international bulk container, it has a plastic square container on a pallet with a metal cage to protect it, it is used to transport liquids, normally 1000 litres. You can pour it over 'not so good silage/hay to make it more pallatable. If Caroline feeds chaf to her horses it will have...

Fodder beet is a high dry matter feed and should not in reasonable quantities cause any upsets. I never had any more dirty sheep than usual when feeding it. I'm not sure what would happen if fed with silage that was a bit wet. A bit of trial and error to get to the optimum feed rate will probably b...

Hi Clive, I havn't fed fodder beet to cows but did for a number of years feed it to sheep. I always chopped mine in an old hand driven shredder. The sheep loved it and did very well on it. I know that you can buy a root chopper bucket to go on a tele handler though they are expensive they do do a g...