Dexter Cattle For Sale Discussion Board

mike skelton

O.K. TB is pretty scary stuff especially when you are in a one year testing area. Is there a standard charge for compensation for various animals and does anyone know what these prices would be . I would just like to add to anyone who has lost any cattle that i am very sorry.

mike

mike skelton

Every time i go to make hay either the the weather is not quite right or i have the smallholders problem that the contractors want to do larger fields of local dairy farmers. I'm seriously considering setting myself up to do my own but hey ho the cost! It would definately help if i had a larger tra...

mike skelton

have you any rump steaks left clive? Being a poor smallholder they would be an ideal size to put in my shoes to cover the holes in my soles!

regards

mike

mike skelton

hi stephanie, what size halter do you use on a newly born calf?

mike skelton

Hi catomel
never mind you being blonde, are you refering to a dexter being returned deadweight at 400kg. If so i'd love to talk to you about your feeding regime

mike

mike skelton

I am debating at the moment whether it would be prudent to go farm assured but being a smallholder find the financial returns difficult to justify. As dexter breeders seem to be a diverse bunch of educated farmers, smallholders and animal lovers can anyone give guidance on if they have registered a...

mike skelton

The problem with that clive is that when i used to milk very often a cow would cough and make that noise at the same time. if the bull or cow made the noise, you could easily end up with a false reading. ha ha! :D

regards mike

mike skelton

Duncan, what do you mean by "cheekier" is this good or bad?

mike

mike skelton

Can anyone give me advice about keeping a bull in a field with a public footpath that never gets used.

I believe there are different rules for dairy and beef bulls. What is the duel purpose Dexter classed as.

Your comments will be gratefully recieved.

mike

mike skelton

You have all raised some interesting points and idea's and i will keep a eye on this posting to see what happens. Back in the 80's we always weaned the calves at 4 days old but then the mothers were friesian milking cows. However once they had finished bucket feeding i reared the heifers as followe...

mike skelton

Well folks, i've had the soil test results back. PH is 5.0 so under advice i've applied 4cwt(200kg) of calciprill . the Phosphorus was low at 13 with a guideline of 26 so ive applied 2 cwt per acre of 21: 8:11. I will soil test again next year to see if this has improved the values. Thankyou :cool:...

mike skelton

the temperatures sound good to me Inger. I've just applied some fertilizer after having soil tests done ,so hopefully the grass should start moving now.

Thanks also stephine as you can see my name appears at the bottom of the page

mike skelton

I Know what you mean stephanie but unfortunatley i'm a bit of a technophobe . I suppose i should get into using a camera for posterity sake but i find all that sort of thing tedious.What a boring old codger i must be!! However I am still really excited about Snowdrop and Sir Cecil and manage to spe...

mike skelton

Thanks Caroline for your kind words i was beginning to think nobody else felt as excited as me when they started their herd. Both calves are growing well and mums are doing a fantastic job!

mike

mike skelton

do you cross the dexters with the Angus then clive? Have you sold joseph yet?

mike

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