Dexter Cattle For Sale Discussion Board

Hi
This is a link to the above sale this Saturday. Almost 50 dexters in the sale.
http://www.kivells.com/agriculture/cata ... 040513.pdf
Cheers
Carole

thats a real good point Mark, our old bull was a master at lifting gates until we "pinned" the gates.
carole

Sorry to hear this news, we have used Holsworthy market in the past, but often the general state of the stock was shocking and the prices paid were equally poor, I had hoped for better from a society sale in Exeter. So why the poor value then, poor condition of the stock ?? that would be odd given t...

hi all

this is what you will be wanting
http://www.kivells.com/agriculture/cata ... p%2012.pdf

this is now available on the kivells site
Carole

Knowing the owner of the bull, Bernard Stamp has had a fantastic record with that Bull and no doubt would expect others to do well showing "Envoy". Perhaps folks are also unaware of "Mighty mouse" another bull which Bernard also had a lot of success with. As someone who has never...

Took a chance in Late May and cut a 12 acre field and took off 68 round bales of haylage. But it was one of those moments. I am sure we have all had them when your out there cutting or turning the grass and you cannot see another famer out there doing what your up to. You then wonder if your right, ...

as Royal Cornwall is our local show and also one which is a 3 day show I can understand the concerns of those who are showing, we have said before I doubt if we would have taken to this wonderful breed had it not been seeing them at the shows. Having said that most of the west country to my knowledg...

its a nice idea but having build our own barns in the traditional way over the last 6 years, the one thing I wished I had done at the very beginning was put in a concrete base. Now all pens have a concrete floor and the difference when you come to clean out the pens is so noticeable, so if you consi...

Many thanks for your advice Mark, very helpful. As regards linear assessment, you may be intrested to know, that we have the opportunity to make an informed judgement but not an assessment of the herd. Last year we purchased a number of very fine stock at the Moonshine dispersal sale in Worcester of...

Just a bit of advice please. We run a large herd of dexter cattle and primarily are involved in the supply of beef to the local butchers. Although we have kept the herd for seven years now we have never shown any of our stock, the whole herd are now non short and it seems most of the winners at show...

We find that those who are fed by a ring feeder, they being the 26 cows generally use a large bale of haylage every 2 days, but they also have ad lib access to Barley straw. My problem though is the amount of waste we have around the feeder. But the steers and heifer calves are fed through a feed ba...

all of our steers are sold direct to a local butcher and we generally will make r4l grade and are paid the FW price for that week, which we have always considered to be fair, last one went at £3.35 per kilo. Having said that our Lleyn sheep are doing better, last ones sold at Hallworthy market went ...

Over 70 Dexters entered in the sale at Holsworthy on 10th September.
Link to catalogue http://www.kivells.com/agricultural/sal ... sp?ID=2291

Really interesting point about how different cows look in a pen to further away. We attended the sale and found ourselves changing our minds between looking at them in the pen and from our vantage point above the sales ring. We did buy at the sale but were not influenced by the linear assessment due...

Hi, Duncan thanks for the feedback, have to admit did not know that about prem calves (this is our first) and the ministry. Co-incidentally it is our tb test tomorrow so ideal time to chat with vet. Vicki thanks for the info re 'sloppy joes', my lack of 'australian' got me into all sorts of trouble...