Dexter Cattle For Sale Discussion Board

I am currently feeding a combination of hay and barley straw to my herd but they are very halfhearted about eating the straw. I like the sound of making it more attractive by adding mollasses, or mineralised mollasses. Where do you get it from? How much do you use? Mine also get pea and bean mix in ...

Just to let everyone know that all is well. My cow though still fat, waddled off on the morning of 4th Jan, found an amenable spot, pushed for about twenty minutes and produced a stunning little red non-short bull calf. She is delighted with it and there was none of the rejection we had after the di...

This is all really helpful and kind of everybody. Many thanks.

I will let everyone know how she gets on, and will hope for a less nightmarish birth for her this time. She is five years old. When people see my cow they say "God! Isn't she FAT!" which makes me feel incompetent but she has exactly the same regime as my other normal-looking Dexters. She j...

Thank you for this comprehensive reply Duncan. The sire is Donardgrange Rob. I have left her steer calf born last July with her, he is still taking swigs of milk. I thought this might stop her getting any fatter, but might this be demanding too much calcium from her? In a nutshell, what do dry cow n...

I have a little short-leg Dexter cow, now in calf for the second time. It had taken ages to get her in calf the first time, and though she had exactly the same amount of food as the rest of my animals, she had grown very fat. The first delivery was awful, the calf coming backwards, delivered by winc...