Dexter Cattle For Sale Discussion Board

Thanks for your thoughts, it seems a shame not to benefit from the beef ourselves. As a matter of interest which local market do you use Clive? We are in Shropshire too.

I have a 4 and half year old cow who will not hold to the bull (she has had one calf only). Would she be worth butchering and hung as a normal finisher or should she just be minced for sausages and burgers? The other option would be to send her to market as a barren but what sort of price might I ex...

Thanks for your replies, she has self weaned successfully and has now gone out to grass to prepare for her new calf.

Our cattle are still housed at the moment. One 9 month old calf has been shouting all day and mothers udder doesn't appear to have been drunk from. She appears fine, eating and cudding but as he approached udder she moved away slightly and he didn't pursue the matter. Is it possible that she is self...

Many thanks for your thoughts, Clive who supplied your hangers? Were they 25mm ?We are in Shropshire.

I have just had a new livestock building erected with rsj uprights. I have bought 15 foot swinging feed gates with one inch eyes. Can anyone recommend the best type of fixings to the rsj's please? These barriers are very heavy hence the one inch hangers.

Thanks Duncan

What would be the youngest age you could use a bull on a few cows/heifers?