Dexter Cattle For Sale Discussion Board

Thankyou so much Mark , that has been brilliant....

Wonder if anyone can help ? Have had two beasts back today ...the older one was graded 0+5L and the younger one was graded -04H , I have looked at Broomcroft's website ( very kind of you to post the info) , but in my inexperience I am having trouble deciding whether my beasts were good bad or indiff...

I've just received in my post details of a pedigree dexter sale at exeter on september 9th. I've looked at the Devon dexters website and then exeter livestock centre website but can't find entry forms or details. I'm wondering if entries need to be halter broken ? Also , obviously need to get anothe...

sorry ,trying to add photo in the snow but can't do it !



oooops bit big this time...... :D



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Oh how sad, poor you finding him like that. we use the tombstone feeders as we also have horses but i have tended to find that my cattle waste much more haylage. i also have found that the younger and therefore smaller animals struggle to reach over as the ones i have , the solid metal part is tall...

:) thankyou all SO much , you don't know how grateful i am. silly thing is you feel all alone when it goes belly up , especially on a froxen january night ! well have just been back up , and although she's a bit proud and heady i managed to fool her into thinking he was drinking and get 60 mls into...

hi folks just wondered if anyone could put my mind at rest this evening or confirm my worries ! ??? our 11 yr old cow calved at 5.30 this evening and is now safely in a dry barn with her babe, this is 7th calf but sadly last yrs was stillborn. the thing that's worring me is he's now 2 hours old and...

I wonder if anyone is able to help .... I have today found 2 heifers that I would like to purchase BUT it would appear I am not allowed to as these heifers are in England and I'm in Wales. Does anyone know anyway around this or in fact when the restriction may be lifted. It has been suggested by Tr...

Thankyou very much Duncan , I will sleep better tonight now! Obviously I won't try and manually remove it myself ! I did wonder if she was late conceiving due to retaining it last year. Is she likely to retain it another year ? I'm wondering if it's a bit like laminitis in the horse , once they've ...

Thankyou very much Duncan , I will sleep better tonight now! Obviously I won't try and manually remove it myself ! I did wonder if she was late conceiving due to retaining it last year. Is she likely to retain it another year ? I'm wondering if it's a bit like laminitis in the horse , once they've ...