Dexter Cattle For Sale Discussion Board

Thanks Rob for your pearls of wisdom. The cows are only for pleasure and our consumption not a comercial venture as the cost of feeding them when you have to buy everything in makes and dealing in small numbers makes unviable. I do realise that once they are sold they are someone elses property as I...

Hi Stephanie,

thanks for your reply. Thats useful to know about the early slaughter. He would be 20 months on 17th of Dec so perhaps that wouldnt be so bad.No I havent put them on here as I thought the stock advertised were all high quality show stock but perhaps I should.

Sue

Hi everyone, due to a number of factors I am unable continue with my small herd of Dexters as I hoped and need to reduce my numbers by more than half. As I havent had them very long I feel really upset, guilty and disapointed about this and its turned into an emotional issue for me and I would reall...

Thanks to both of you for your replies. As always in life their are so many ways to skin a cat that any aproach is the right one if it works. I seem to have secured a much better quailty of hay from my supplier and if I can guarentee that for the next 3 months then I will stick with hay this year. I...

Thanks Clive, yes I have come across other people who use mollasses to sweeten straw and give an added source of energy. In my case the cows love the barley straw and get very excited when I open a new bale or put some more bedding down. In fact it was thier enthusiasm for it and the fact they were ...

Thanks you all for your replies, it's interesting to see that a number of you are very keen on feeding hay and your thoughts are most welcome. As the nutritional quality of hay varies, mine get a Rumivite ad-lib protien and energy supliment to help them make the most of their forage and make up any ...

I realise from reading archived posts that this question has been posed before but I am struggling to find a decent hay source for the rest of the winter. I have tried 3 suppliers so far this year only to discover that they all take hay off the ings and that the bales contain a high percentage of re...

There always seems to be some on Preloved but I couldnt vouch for the quality

Thanks for posting this dreadful story.It must have been very distressing for you. I spent an afternoon with a freind this week who was having 6 of her cattle dehorned. In between my gofering and dodging squirting blood I was toying with just how neccessary it was to de horn my two calves. The rest ...

Hi, thanks for your replies. the blocks that they have are Rumenco - Rumivite protine and energy which contains yeast and helps them to make effective use of their hay. It is also suitable for sheep ( as they were sharing with the rams for a time) and they have a bucket of supalyx cattle booster wit...

Hi My wife (sue) and I are new to Dexters, though have some experience with sheep, we have two small flocks of Rylands. At the end of summer we bought 3 cows, each with a calf at foot. since then the cows have been with the bull and we are hoping that next year we have three more calves. Our cows ar...