Dexter Cattle For Sale Discussion Board

I get revenge on my time consuming animals by consuming them

Horses for courses

I have spoken to cattle farmers and some say they would never keep dexters as they can be cross especially round dogs and you cant keep them in.

Shaun what is the live weight of your cattle when you get 100kg of meat in fridge

Just a quick question A cow valued at £500 will she have a small slow growing calves and her £1000 counterpart have a fast growing calves with longer a breeding span. Quality pedigree sheep have faster growing lambs etc, and are worth a lot more money. Dexters in my opinion are a niche market, and s...

What would that make the animal not taking into account fees and traveling etc

Well second cow calved last night, so too late to look into now but thanks for the feedback

Hi folks, here is another question in my cow handling education How do get a freshly calved cow to take on an extra calf? Do you need a calf waiting until she calves or can you try to put one on 24 hours after she calves (ie 24 hours to get one) By the way daisy up and running about no worse for me ...

Tom that is correct. I used the powder colostrum. In my ignorance was that the wrong thing to do?

Brilliant advice thank you.

Hi Folks Cow has calved (thanks for advice in past, but i was not needed or involved) but now the problem seems to be in getting the calve to suck. It showed no interest being born around 7 so tubed it at 10.30. The calve is now up and running around 18.30 but still showing no signs of looking for m...

I am used to giving artificial colostrum to lambs via either a bottle or a tube, but this is my first step into keeping cattle. As i work out i thought it might be better to have some just in case, I just have no idea how much i should give them if necessary

Hi Folks

What is the opinion of manually giving colostrum at birth. and how much would you give

Thanks folks for feedback so far . I have lambed sheep before, but this is my first toe in the water when it comes to cattle.Some times with the lambs you could not go wrong the following week nothing goes right. Hopefully it will be a lucky week> I am now seeing the cows bag start to fill out,shoul...

Hi Folks

Cows hopefully calving in next few weeks . Any suggestions other than keeping close eye on them.

Also what do i do to register them?

Is it worth registering bull calves or better castrating straight away

New to all this as just starting up, any advice most welcome

Sorry when i said about AA being rare, i might have been better saying not so popular 20 years ago. When perhaps when they were a smaller size more like dexters