Dexter Cattle For Sale Discussion Board

Woodmagic Wheatear was the source of PHA in the U.S.. There is a 99% chance she got it from one of her two parents, and a 1% chance it was a fresh mutation in her. If I were a UK Dexter breeder, I'd be pushing for everyone to test descendents of Wheatear's parents and grandparents. http://i193.photo...

I don't think there are any living Dexters today that can trace fully back to Dublin Herdbook #1 with no gaps ..... Am I wrong?

Can anyone name any living Dexters with 100% complete pedigrees?

Oxen photo came from 2003 ADCA Membership Directory in US. Person in picture was ADCA leadership in the past. Oxen were born in 1993, so were 10 years or under in pic. Those very long legs on those steers aren't due to being steered. You can bet that if you steered a boy like this non-chondro, true-...

Jac, There was no height standard in Ireland either. I believe the first time height was introduced to the breed standard was the DCS herd book of 1992 and I think that was increased in 1998, and maybe yet again since that time. I have all the versions detailed in a word document but I cannot remem...

Concerning Professor Low's 1845 description of Dexters he simply said: "a remarkable roundness of form and shortness of legs." "short legs, and a small space from the knee and hock to the hoofs" "roundness and depth of carcase" Here's an excellent non-chondro True Breed...

Judy has a valid concern about preserving the essential features of heritage breeds... Our small family farm in Oregon, USA is home to several heritage breeds and those heritage traits are essential to our farm's survival... We have no vet and little or no vet care, and our Dexters, Icelandic Sheep,...

1. Dexters aren't an ancient old breed.... Instead, they are a relatively new breed developed in the lifetimes of many of our grandparents and great grandparents and they are still under development because so many of them have offspring that don't meet the breed description. 2. Dexters are a concep...

Friendly, hardy, compact bulls and cows easily providing gourmet beef and milk.

TBH I don't expect the Americans to be the saviour of the breed that grew up on the rocky, boggy west coast of Ireland. They haven't done that with most other breeds I can think of. Whenever a breed is exported it tends to adapt to the climate and topography of the destination, both through activel...

Absolutely brilliantly put and easy to understand! Thank you. Stephanie Apart from the bit about dun being a dominant phenotype, that's the opposite. The TYRP1 gene is indeed dominant. TYRP1 stands for Tyrosinase-Related Protein 1. This gene is a type of protein that works as an enzyme to assist in...

I don't really want to enter this debate but there are some simple things that stand out a little to a person that really does not have a great deal of interest. Kirk, if Platinum was pure where did the polled come from, I see they compared to markers from 14 breeds but what about the british Red P...

Concerning Dexter Phenotypes in America, Here's a "Legacy " Dexter promoted as the purest of pure dexters by the purists in the US... This is Wee Gaelic Ms. Fermoy born in 1991. The purists pumped her for embryos in an attempt to save her type (while at the same time, complaining about oth...

1. 99.9 % of all dexters born before 2000 do not have parentage verifications. ALL pedigrees likely have some degree of error, and likely have some degree of intrusion somewhere on their 10 generation pedigrees from other non-dexter bulls. But those occasional intrusions, since the very beginnings o...

Where I have come across a ‘dun’ Dexter with Jersey in the pedigree, the result has never been a brindle, but a ‘dun’ which is a very poor relation of the true Dexter dun, being often very washed out and pale. Incidentally, I understood it had been established that the dun gene in the Dexter was sp...

I have lived long enough to know you never finish learning! Wouldn’t that result in dun brindles as well? I guess it will be some time before DNA gives us all the answers Beryl (Woodmagic) Yes! The brindle gene (dominant Br) at the Brindle locus is a pattern gene that only works in the presence of ...