Dexter Cattle For Sale Discussion Board

Hiya, no i was in no way patronised by your post, I completely agree there's a lot more to think about than just diving in, like you say there is a big risk of upsetting nature if you're not incredibly gentle and careful and know what your doing/being closely supervised!

Thankyou for all the replies, I think that's settled it, I'll have her scanned! I understand what you're saying Lisa, but as I said my hubby is experienced he used to do our friesians with no problems. I am learning but I read up on doing the job and the risks involved before I went anywhere near my...

Hi, hoping to draw on everyone's experience yet again I'm afraid!! My 4 yr old cow should be between 5-6 months in calf, I pd'd her yesterday, left it late in the hope it would be easy to feel a fetus and she miscarried her last calf quite late in the pregnancy so didn't want to upset nature by goin...

Hi, down here in dorset we are with a branch of xl vets and find them to be fab. Nothing is too much trouble for them at test time. They are more than happy to have a dosing gun in hand or bolus our cattle on read day to help us out and we've never had any additional charges applied. I only speak as...

And the result of Monday's outing..... She placed 3rd in her class!!! Absolutely delighted! And her friend that went with her placed 2nd in the class! A very surprising positive experience of my first ever show! And more importantly to me than the rosettes both girls seemed happy and relaxed with th...

Thank you for all the replies I can only apologise for the delay replying, were rearing our batch of 50 aa calves as well as Dexter training. I'm pleased to report after much soul searching and deep and meaningful chats and gentle haltering myself and the heifer have resolved our differences and she...

Hi everyone, I am currently trying to halter break my 16 mth old heifer and it's not going well :| she is lovely without a halter and not a "fighter" as a rule, she's well behaved whilst tied and anyone can touch her all over however when I untie her to walk her all hell breaks loose! She ...

Thank you for your answers! Nfu were who I tried to start with, they weren't too keen to help because I've only got 6 animals they said they needed to charge me a lot as there's a minimum policy charge. I will be definately having a chat with your recommendation Stephanie and finding out for definat...

Hi everyone, I was just wondering if anyone could advise me on insurance for cattle Id like to show? Does anyone have a recommended insurer? I'm not 100 percent sure what I need if I'm honest! At the moment they're covered with our angus herd but I'd like to put them under their own policy as its on...

Thank you for all the brilliant advice!!

Ah lovely thanks guys, I shall look on their website then! Thanks for the details on the show, I shall make a note on my calendar!

Hi my names jenny and I've just started out with dexters, a complete change from the angus herd we have! and am interested in getting into showing,I am a complete beginner so any advice would be greatly appreciated! I was wondering if anybody would be kind enough to advise me how to gauge what size ...