Dexter Cattle For Sale Discussion Board

Thanks Cyndy,
Just goes to show diferent shows have different rules! I'll have to change my entry form now xx

I find that all my halter trained heifers have such character both on and off the halters, resulting in good and bad days or weeks! Yet however much some might play up I think they know when its show time as they behave really well in the ring (Well most the time!!) I find that catching my cattle in...

Heya, I am fairly new to keeping Dexter cattle, and I have a few cows which are halter trained and were shown this year. Whilst haltering the cattle I found that this discussion board gave some good tips along with friends tips too!! From my experiances and knowledge that has been given to me, I may...

I have found that my Red heifer lost her winter coat fairly quick, But again i think it may have something to do with most of my blacks having red in them!! However out of my two show heifers my red heifer has lost most of her coat apposed to the black heifer having more winter coat than summer!!

Heyaa,

I still have a few dexters with their patchy winter coats on, out of the 12 dexters I have, only about 3-4 still have a winter coat, One being my heifer. Hopefully they will loose them soon, as I do think they look rather rough with half a winter coat still on in June!!

Heya Duncan, Sorry it has taken me so long to reply I have been very busy sorting out my small growing herd of dexters and preparing for shows! :) She did not have any visible external parasites or lice. I called teh vet up to look at her as i seen that another one of heifers has flakey skin too! Th...

Thanks, I have another show coming up in a couple weeks time, and im now taking two, the heifer I shown at North Somerset and a newly nearly trained heifer (I have a little bit of work to do in these next couple weeks beleive me!!) :!: I have toyed with the idea of using a bulldog (nose clip) howeve...

Heya All, Thankyou very much for your comments, they have been usefull!! I was using a rope halter which I found didnt loosen when she wasnt pulling so i changes halters to one that loosenes and it works really well!! :) I went to my first show Monday at North Somerset and was very pleased on how sh...

I started with Dexters in August and started with 1 cow and calf now have 1 breeding cow and 2 breeding heifers. I am wanting to show this summer and have some shows lined up. I was wondering if anyone could help with the following questions?! (sorry to be a pain!) ??? How do i get my heifers to wa...