Dexter Cattle For Sale Discussion Board

I feel for you wanting and needing the milky ones and not able to just go out and get what you want like I did. I realise I was SO lucky to be able to buy from Beryl! It is very unfair, isn´t it! Well, my cow is not a very crappy milker. But above all I don´t want a new generation that is poorer th...

Wow Liz, a testimony like your really make a difference as I am trying to guess which bull to choose! I have been working on getting a permission to import Elmwood Mackoy straws for quite a while, but things move very slow. Now, after this thread I may find some new energy to start bother UK Sire S...

Yes, height without knowing what age when measured is not worth very much.

I wonder, how does it work in your countries (Australia, UK, Holland for instance), do you ask for an official measurement for registred animals? At a specified age?



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I did know about the Register of Merit thing but I have never realized I can look for it in the online herd book. Now I have spent an hour looking for RM cows and looking up the pedigrees of AI bulls. I may have missed a few since I searched for animals with "rm" in their names, not an op...

Denise, I appreciate the work done in Australia. You have Danish AI bulls who is said not to have been chondro tested and for that reason are banned from import to Sweden. I guess the tests have been made down under, on straws. Obviously things are in better order in Australia than in UK, and Denma...

Moomin, Thanks for info on Mackoy. I think it would be perfectly ok for you to brag a little about the Moomin bulls too. If you want to. Can you share any information on milkiness of the daughters of Mackoy, Posh and Jupiter, and/or their dams? I would appreciate it sooo much. Sorry for hijacking.....

All these boys are non carriers I think. The information on UK semen bulls are often zero. I have found this very frustrating and annoying when searching for suitable semen to import. It doesn´t make sense to spend hundreds of £ on semen from a bull you know nothing about. Noting about offspring, h...

Beryl was quite scathing of the use of human names for cattle. Well, our B year will be 2024 or something, if I survive until then I will find another beautiful B name. Every person should be respected as far as possible when it comes to big and small things like this. I am glad to know. Ps. I miss...

But think of the mozzarella and curd (Indian yoghurt) you are missing! Dexter mozzarella is ok, and Dexter yoghurt is superb, but since I visited India 25 years ago I always have wanted a water buffalo. I think falling for Dexters may be some kind of projection. The very first water buffalos came t...