Dexter Cattle For Sale Discussion Board

timandsharon21@hotmail.co

Hi some great helpful replies, thanks,
the book sounds interesting for us smallholders.

Fed the cabbages in small quantitys this morning and was well accepted, our steer is very greedy, and devoured the first lot quickly followed by the rest !
Thanks for all the replies.

timandsharon21@hotmail.co

Hi has anyone fed Brassicas in particular cabbage, we have a glut at the moment, and not sure if its digestible, perhaps it needs to be shredded/chopped, any advice would be welcome,

Tim

timandsharon21@hotmail.co

Really lovely photos Dom, grass looks good too !!!

We did much the same today, walked the fields, and found quite a bit of Ragwort, so removed very quickly, has anyone else had problems with Ragwort, as I gather if cut is lethal for cattle.

timandsharon21@hotmail.co

We attended the show, bit dissapointed with number of Dexters showing, perhaps there are further classes over the next 2 days ?

Tim

timandsharon21@hotmail.co

I think we recently mentioned problems with flies, we have just used 'Spot On' which I have to say has eradicated any problem we had, animals now free of the problem, which also treats Lice.

Tim Stevens

timandsharon21@hotmail.co

Great Photos Ann, and interesting to hear that explanations were given to participants in respect of standard etc, hopefully we may have a calf for the next show if handling goes according to plan !!

Tim Stevens

timandsharon21@hotmail.co

Ours vary considerably, some are looking very scrappy, although others are silky black, do the reds take longer to look better ?
In Yorkshire our grass is still patchy in places, but some help from the rain last week has provided momentum

timandsharon21@hotmail.co

Really helpful advice many thanks everyone

Tim

timandsharon21@hotmail.co

Thanks Louise we only have about 5 acres, split 50/50, so cattle are on a good field at present whilst I work on the other that they overwintered on, it has got grass, but not great quality, will try ahrrowing first and reseedin August, but thanks for your valued advice. Have my calf to Ear Tag tom...

timandsharon21@hotmail.co

Thanks both for the great advice, i will plough on with harrowing and reseeding, thanks for the hints on Cotswold seeds, especially already fertilised.
thanks again
Tim

timandsharon21@hotmail.co

Hi everyone, We are quite new to Dexter ownership, and this is my first post on the site, so here goes ! We have a small herd of six, one Steer, and five girls ranging from two mums with one year old calves each and our latest Heifer born on Election Day ! We have two fields, for which we can rotat...

timandsharon21@hotmail.co

Great website Ann, we look forward to using it, would be nice to see some photos from other Northern herds at some stage, but photo competition was great to see,
regards
Tim

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