Dexter Cattle For Sale Discussion Board

Hi Denise I am in the West, and it is hot and really dry. Not sure how many homes were lost in the fire at Lake Clifton this week, they are not letting them all back in yet so haven't said how many are homeless. It is a semi rural area so lots of small blocks (2.5 - 5 acres) with horses, chooks, so...

Hi Minnie I think it depends very much on the water and soil make up on a particular property. We drink the water from both properties. Our home/filtered water is beautiful, clear and no taste. The other property can occassionally taste a little "muddy" over summer when the water table ha...

We have water with high iron content, on 2 properties. The bore water at our home property we aerate then filter through lime sand which reduces the iron content significantly. White material still goes off white fairly quickly though. The other property is purely commercial and we don't filter the...

Well Margaret - we have a "Flossie" this year too! :D Although technically she will be "Faerie Floss" coz she is so sweet... :p Mind you her mum (our teenage pregnancy) is called Ermintrude as hubby was reliving his childhood and had to have Ermintrude from the Magic Roundabout ...

Well of the 3 heifers who the bull got into 2 of them ended up pregnant. I considered getting them needled at the time but decided to wait and hope they had been to young - didn't see any bull activity. The second heifer looks like calving any day now - can't be far off because the bull was only in...

Well we had our first "teenage" birth yesterday. 16month old heifer. We had run the bull in with the herd last year when the heifers were only young. Taken him out and all was good until the rotten ..... went through 3 electric fences to get back in with the herd 3 months later. :angry: A...

Well, just for the record we have screened our entire herd for PHA. Being in Australia it was relatively easy. We had previously screened the original herd members for Chrondo and as the DNA was held for even deceased animals we could then screen the orginal herd again. Some didn't need be done bec...

Hi Clive People can write anything can't they?! Homozygous does mean that 1 gene for that trait will always be passed on but it will ony be expressed in the resulting offspring if it is a dominant gene. Is the animal is homozygous for a recessive trait although it will pass this on to the offspring...

Well our vet only works with cattle, mainly big dairy herds. Over the 5 years since we got rid of the big animals and got the dexters he has gone from writing them off as a novelty to respecting them for what they are. Mind you dehorning has had a lot to do with that!! He calls them small cows with...

Well that increases the amount of animals that could be affected doesn't it! I think the genral hope was that the mutation had occurred in Priapus so that you could rule out any animal that didn't have him in their pedigree. Unfortunately now that we have to conclude that Wheatear was definietly a ...

Hi Louisa , sorry - meant to reply to this earlier. Here in Australia Scrotal circumference is included in the inspection of the bulls that are on our AI register. If you go to the Dexter Australia Website: http://dexter.une.edu.au/ Under member services (you don't need a login) you go to "Ani...

We have several dun animals and they all have light eyes - which I assume is due to the same dilution that gives them the dun colour. So never had a problem with telling the difference between dun and red - until today. We have a 2 day old red bull calf - very red, pink nose etc. BUT he has the lig...

Hi Clive Never done veal, but do for beef from 18 months, if demand is high and I don't have anything closer to 24 months. At 18 months ours have all tasted like "Dexter" except for our only crossbred calf - from a hereford cow (dexter bull). I like hereford (or remember enjoying before w...