Dexter Cattle For Sale Discussion Board

tooloos

I was just wondering if anyone had been to the sales at either sedgemoor or cirencester and what were the prices like ?

tooloos

we have just got back from the show and were very impressed with the dexters. Congratulations to those who won and to every one who took part, mrs weaver certainly had a job on her hands with the judging !! Seeing the dexters in such good spirits and condition made the visit to the last royal show ...

tooloos

We ll come and find you on the saturday after watching the showing . Thank you for your hospitality and very informative farm visit the other weekend . We were very impressed to say the least and it gave us some new ideas.

tooloos

Hi No we thought we would start a bit smaller at stroud show on July 18th, but we're going up to the three counties to go and watch all the dexter showing and thought we could talk to some one to get some "inside information"! The two hiefers are looking really well and have just gone to ...

tooloos

I was just wondering if anybody is showing at the three couties on saturday? It's just that we are hoping to go to the first show in a few weeks and would like to meet them and pick up a few tips.

Abbie

tooloos

Just some more photos of our herd. This is a 6 month our short heffier. http://i489.photobucket.com/albums/rr257/billybolly123/cows019.jpg Our new bull http://i489.photobucket.com/albums/rr257/billybolly123/cows056.jpg One of the original cows we bought, she's the mother of the top calf. http://i48...

tooloos

should have taken my father in laws advice and bought pigs ! :laugh:

tooloos

perhaps they won t be medium but we re trying to keep our cows on the short to medium size preferably which is why we re going about it this way

tooloos

no we saw the bull at the melton mowbray show and thought he stood out [ in our eyes anyway but he got a third in the show ] . the watercress herd is from shropshire and we saw the cows and they were very nice cows with good udders etc which is one of the things we would like to improve. lulu is th...

tooloos

we are in a high tb risk area so every time we get a bull in it needs testing before it leaves we also have the cows calving at different times so a bull might have two months or more before next animal on in which the hirer might want him moved on . we decided that to hire in a bull and tb test et...

tooloos

she s non short due to calve in december to a non short bull . we will breed our own replacements but also be on the lookout for cows which will improve the herd . we ve just bought a bull watercress wenlock who is short leg to cross with our long leg cows and ai our three short leg with long leg t...

tooloos

not sure if i'm right or not but looks like the man who led up the cattle at the knightsway sale so could it possibly be knightsway paddy or sollershope tippet ?

tooloos

we curently have 5 breeding cows, 2 older heifers,1 6 month heifer who is curently being weaned at the moment and we are due two more calves. Here is a pictuer of lulu in full. Abbie and Dig x

tooloos

Here are a few more pictuers of the cows in our herd.# http://i489.photobucket.com/albums/rr257/billybolly123/Pointtopoint222.jpg http://i489.photobucket.com/albums/rr257/billybolly123/Pointtopoint220.jpg http://i489.photobucket.com/albums/rr257/billybolly123/Pointtopoint269.jpg http://i489.photobu...

tooloos

I think this is a brilliant idea! I would love to have a photography compition. Good idea with the calander too!!!

Abbie

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