Dexter Cattle For Sale Discussion Board

Hi Mark, Could you please provide more info on the Australian Dexter Cattle Appeal. Australia as we are all aware is being ravaged by bush fires and and the devastation and loss of wildlife caused by this disaster is heartbreaking to see. If the appeal is to help farmers affected I will be more than...

Hi Seeing the poor prices attained at the recent York sale and not having seen the cattle on offer, I can only assume the poor prices/averages were due to the quality of stock on offer or a lack of buyers. If this was due to the stock on offer were people using this as a dumping ground to offload in...

Hi Ann,

I was going to raise this point, I thought the original deadline was 28 days to tie in with the passport application. How many people were refused registration if they were only late by days ?

Mark S

Brereton Herd

Hi Mark, Hope you continue with the Discussion Board, we had a serious issue with Facebook and will not have another account with them, also surprisingly a lot of people do not have access or want access to a Facebook. It does appear to have been quiet of late but the value of the site is that the d...

As all this years calves have been heifers and following a run of mostly heifers in previous years I checked the herd register and found that of the last 20 calves born, 16 were females and 4 were bull calves. Prior to this the ratio was about 50/50. This group of calves were sired by 4 different bu...

I am not in total agreement with Duncan’s comments, he states seller paying the transfer fee may reduce the number of good breeding cattle sold and not registered. In a lot of pedigree breeds of both sheep and cattle there are sales to farmers not members of the relevant breed Society who will have ...

More confusion re payment for transfer of ownership. Contacted last night by Alan Carrington to discuss this issue and to clarify if I had reported it correctly that it is the vendor who is responsible for paying the transfer fee. The reason he was asking the question is that he was issued with a ne...

I have just received a new style pedigree certificate, on the back of the certificate under sale/transfer it is quite clear that it is the vendor’s responsibility for transferring the animal and is also liable for the transfer fee. I have no recollection of receiving a letter outlining the new trans...

We sent a steer to the Abattoir this week to be butchered for private sales as freezer packs. As we have not sold this way for a while, we were wondering what other breeders are charging for beef sold this way. The carcass will be sold as 4 packs, each pack consisting of a mix of both hind and foreq...

Interesting comment on the carcass fat classification, spoke to the butcher on Monday re finish etc. They were cutting the carcasses ready for the Easter trade, he was extremely happy with them and for him (and presumably his customers) he would not have wanted any more fat present. We have sold bee...

The bulls were born last March, cows and calves were turned out 26 April. From birth to housing 19 December cows and calves received no supplementary feeding apart from big bale hay which was fed outside from the beginning of December. On housing all cattle fed second cut big bale silage, the bulls ...

As the bulls have now been slaughtered It is now a good opportunity to give an update on the finishing, carcass weights and prices attained etc. For finishing The 2 bulls were both housed together and were fed beef nuts at a rate of 4lbs/head/day and ad.lib. Haylage (good quality made June 2018) . F...

Grass growing well in Cheshire, apart from 2 young bulls all cattle turned out, excellent conditions underfoot. Split into 2 groups, 1 group in a paddock that we are giving haylage in a ring feeder, the second group, cows due to calve 5 to 8 weeks and the bull are in a field with plenty of grass but...

I am currently finishing a couple of dexter bulls, currently 11months old. They are being finished on ad lib haylage and 4 lbs Beef nuts/day and are displaying good levels of finish. I aim to have them finished in the next 4-6 weeks and will sell the majority of the Beef to customers. What experienc...

Just wondering how other breeders coped with what was the hottest and driest summer for some time. Here in Cheshire in June we made some excellent Haylage for our Dexter’s and Sheep, however volume was down and we would need to do a second cut. As the summer progressed with little or no rain in July...