Dexter Cattle For Sale Discussion Board

Hi Saffy, We had terrible warts on our young stock last year for the first time, also ring worm. this year ther are no signs at all and we did not vaccinate for this problem. We did vaccinate for Blue tounge in October 2008 but not vaccinate in 2009, I do wonder if there is any link to this problem...

Hi Cyndy We also bought an IAE small de-horning crush that was supposed to be for Dexter's but I still had to put a false floor in it and my herd are non shorts. I did experiance one of my steer calves whilst being de-horned and castrated by the vet crashed with no vital signs and took so long to r...

Hi strawberriesclint Just a note to say sorry Rosemary and I could not attend your invitation to visit your herd and look around your strawberry farm, I have been told it was a lovely day out. It was the only weekend we had to make our 7 acres of hay and thought I should not miss the chance in this...

Got through my test yesterday without to many problems, one steer decided to put his leg up over the side of the crush so had to be injected on the other side, another calf decided he wanted to be in the crush with his mum pushing past me to get in there, quite a feet as it's only a small crush. th...

I am looking for advise please as I am new to dexter breeding, I have four new calves born March/April this year all black, now there coats seem to be changing colour to brown, also some of the older ones seem to be changing aswell. Is this common or should I be concerned, could It be some dietry d...

I am looking for advise please as I am new to dexter breeding, I have four new calves born March/April this year all black, now there coats seem to be changing colour to brown, also some of the older ones seem to be changing aswell. Is this common or should I be concerned, could It be some dietry d...

Hi Catherine, like you we had the same idea.about 4 months ago we bought some dexters for the first time,in my ignorance i did not realise you have to apply to defra for a holding number and a herd number for the cattle passports, it's not to difficult to apply for but a lot of paper work to read &...

Hi Catherine, like you we had the same idea.about 4 months ago we bought some dexters for the first time,in my ignorance i did not realise you have to apply to defra for a holding number and a herd number for the cattle passports, it's not to difficult to apply for but a lot of paper work to read &...