Dexter Cattle For Sale Discussion Board

Saffy, your kittens are gorgous!! We sadly lost one of our cats last week, she was a rehomed feral I acquired from the Cats Protection League in 1989. She was an adult cat when we got her, her approximate age according to their vet was 18months to 2 years. She had lost her hearing in the last year....

Hi Vicky and Stew, Will chop them into small bits and see if they are interested, I am sure Primrose will be, she will eat anything!! As for pumpkins for human consumption, I have to concede that I have grown them for more years than I care to remember, ever since I was a little girl, and as much a...

I have a few surplus pumpkins left unsold. Has anyone any experience/advice as to whether they would be suitable to feed to cattle/sheep, and in what form (i.e. cut in chunks/pureed/cooked)? I have googled this and have found some vague references to them as an old fashioned cattle feed, but not in...

Well you made me laugh!! Fancy catching that on camera, well done. I used to have a great dane who spent his day happily trailing around after me, but he became very jealous if I went into a stable and left him outside. He would jump up the door and hang his head over, until he could stand no more,...

So sorry to hear of your plight. I guess its 'murphys law', any one of us could have bought those cows in? Never considered it before, but maybe your awful experience has helped everyone on this forum, in that next time we buy one/some in we should be more careful about isolating them and getting o...

Hi Ros, I ordered a couple of leave on nylon calf halters and a couple of calf nylon web neckstraps. The neckstraps fitted my short stocky 10month old heifer, but the halter was slightly on the large side so I would not have left it on her. Another place to try is Creature Comforts - 01284 830225 -...

Tell me about it!! Sold cow in calf, heifer at foot and yearling steer which my son had turned into a pet, then anounced he would not eat him, to my vet. His wife was not impressed, but today, yes sunday afternoon when the neapolitan mastiff went wrong for the 50 million time (mere exaggeration), s...

Hi Clive, My God, they still sound like good prices!! Have to be honest, since all the markets have closed down around us, (I miss Bury St Edmunds!!) I have lost touch of prices! Only the local trade advertiser and word of mouth (which works quite well with Dexters) left? Jean (very few cows left i...

Hi Saffy, I couldn't advise you on quantities of apples, but what I am always wary of is choke. We have a small orchard. We never put the cows in there but I do feed them the windfalls. This way I can regulate the quantity consumed. However back in my early days I just fed them whole and nearly los...

Inger, you do not mention whether you have ever given your home kill man a joint of dexter beef? I have a lovely farmer around here, who for years suggested I should go for a more commercial breed. One year I dropped some steak and a beef joint off at his wife's. I asked her to cook it for him but ...

seriously now, I am sure I have asked this before but whilst on this subject can someone please explain what an anonymous member is? I understand the public member as someone who is registered and a guest is someone who is not. I do recall Ann tried to answer my question but to be honest I did not ...