Dexter Cattle For Sale Discussion Board

Where are the spring sales. There are none on our region.

We had a farmer at a show scoff about our Dexters, this was about ten years ago. He was not amused when I told him we get the same subsidy for our bull calves as he gets for his, but we can keep thre of four to his one charolais. We have a friend with charolais who will not eat his own beef, but lov...

I take exception to the reference to smallholders. We are smallholders and are doing very well with our Dexters, thank you. We show and sell some stock, but also eat any which we consider not good enough to breed from.
Lottie James
Sedgefen Dexters

Our short legged show heifer had to have a c-section delivery early hours saturday morning. The vet tried for two hours to pull the calf but decided there was no way we could pull it. The calf arrived, I rubbed it dry with a towel and within five minutes he was trying to stand. This is a short legge...

If you contact me, I will send details of our local group. East Anglia Group. We meet three or four times a year at various different venues. We are a friendly group of like minded people, who just like an informal gathering now and then. Kelvin James Sedgefen Dexters 21 Sedge Fen Lakenheath Suffolk...

Surely the Dexter was always known as the little black cow. If you want bigger cattle then go for bigger breeds. Why have people got Dexters if they want them bigger? It doesn't make sense to me.
Lottie James
Sedgefen Dexters.

There are no auctions within easy reach of East Anglia, so our only publicity comes from showing. The public are very interested in Dexters, but most of them are just show visitors, not actually livestock keepers.

Whatever is happening at Melton, only four breeds, with a total of thirty cattle entered. Some of these will not be forward, so unless people are interested in the semen there will probably be very few buyers present. A great shame because ther used to be a huge number of cattle with severeal more b...

This is the same day as Newbury Show so a lot of Dexter people will miss out.

We use Cliverton for our liability insurance. They are really helpful and quite reasonable.
Lottie

Why are these cattle called lowline, when they are pedigree aberdeen angus? Surely, this is the size that angus were originaly, before canadian blood was introduced. The herd where I worked fifty years ago was a pedigree herd of this size. The only thing different in those days was that they were re...

This bull was born on 25-12-2010. He is a beautiful bull/ We saw him a few weeks ago, when we went to see Gwyn and Bernice.
Lottie

We worked with a pedigree Angus herd 30 years ago and they were not much bigger than the Dexter in those days. Some breeders are trying to make the Dexter bigger, but it would spoil the breed to do that.

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Sedgefen Dexters wish everybody a Happy New Year. Kelvin and Lottie