Dexter Cattle For Sale Discussion Board

Good to know that he gets so much help with the carrying. Thanks for clarifying the height situation for me.

Thanks for that link. I've printed off the details and picture. The Market Place shows an older bull and well filled out. I have to agree, he is a cracking bull. At $65 a straw, I'm trying to decide how many straws to get. I'm after a bull calf. I wonder how many tries I'll need, for Murphy to decid...

One of our NZ A.I. companies is offering straws from Planetree Talos. The picture shows him standing beside a man. Either the man is shorter than average, or Talos is over the breed standard in height. Can anyone tell me how tall he is at the hip? Also, is he red or dun? The colouring in the picture...

I've found that older Dexter cows will just eat anything and tidy up messy pastures very nicely. We keep 2 or 3 Dexter bulls together and it works very well, as long as the age heirachy is established, with the younger bulls coming into the herd as weaned calves. Once the bulls get older though and ...

Thanks for that info, I'll let the breeder know. If she only has to test for BD2 (from the mother's side), it should make it cheaper. I think the new test provider will do one or the other test, whereas the previous laboratory insisted doing both tests, if you needed the BD2 test done. That made it ...

I need to know if Llanfair's Finnigan, a USA registered bull ADCA8221, was a carrier or a non-carrier? I need to determine if it's necessary to test a Dexte herd for BD1. The lady owning the Dexters concerned, was getting a number of bulldog calves and we suspect that testing for BD2 would be suffic...

That's what I read on the internet as well. But it's a fact that the older bull tested clear of Neospora when we bought him and a year later, after spending some months with an infected bull calf, he then tested positive for his second blood test, which I had collected at the same time as a blood sa...

We have been warned to watch out for PHA in the NZ Dexter Society, but I haven't heard of any calves born with it yet. Though I guess if the calf is miscarried at 3 or 4 months, it could be mistaken for a bulldog calf?

I don't have any dead weights, as we sell our steers at weaning, but I can give you liveweights for non-carrier heifers. We'll be weighing the 1 and 2 year old heifers in a day or two, before the biggest ones go to the bull. We sold two steers that were 11 months old and weighed an average of 192.5 ...

Dexter bulls are also useful to put over dairy heifers, as they sire lower birthweight calves, which go on to be beefy little weaners. There's a good market for dairy x beef weaner steers in NZ. They make up a good portion of the beef industry here, as we have so very many dairy cows and have to do ...

It was wonderful to watch. I do wonder where the idea came from though? Perhaps too many ales, down at the pub one night? So much work though. I'm glad it was all captured on film.

I gave one of our heifers that wouldn't get in calf, seaweed meal and that seemed to do the trick. Perhaps she had a lack of iodine? Anyway, after the first calf, she never had any problems getting back in calf again.

Yes, I have found that the carriers are more prone to getting fat, than the non-carriers. I have seen a solution to giving her more exercise. A pony owner had a paddock divided off around the edge, with an electric tape. So that there was a grazing strip all around the perimeter of the paddock, whic...

Can anyone give me any up to date information on the transmission of this disease? I read on the internet that it can only be passed on from cow to calf, in-utero, but that is wrong, as I had a case where a previously non-infected bull, became infected by a bull calf that was kept in his paddock for...

Wouldn't it be better to have a wider middle band, that would encompass most of the carriers and non-carriers? There will still be some that fall outside the standard at either end, but the majority would be within the bell curve for height. Most of our herd are within the NZ height standard, yet th...