Dexter Cattle For Sale Discussion Board

what about consevation grazing, having spoken to Mark Purdy before he passed away about BSE he said research had been done on the livers of cattle and told us that the Dexter liver is more akin to a deer than a comercial cattle liver, perhaps our little Dexters have yet another advantage over their...

yes Clive,and its right, if you remove horns or branches or whatever you have polled the item, but for purposes of giving others a correct status of your animal do you not think it would be better if we had horned, dehorned or polled, the first obviously being when the animal is left as it is born ...

I agree the horned, none and polled are very confusing, there can only be two categories, horned and polled, the only other way could be to delete the none option and have a dehorned option but then would they have been dehorned by the time you have to register them, anyone selling stock that have ...

many years ago when we only had 3 animals I saved all lawn cuttings by putting them in strong poly bags and realy pressed them tight to expell all the air, this was initially an experiment and finished up at the end of the year with about 70 bags, when the farmer I worked for at the time had his si...

this is perhaps an opportune time to mention that as cheques are to be phased out and even cash in some cases is not acceptable (our local district council for instance will not accept cash as payment) when registering on line you can also pay by BACs (bank transfer)this method saves you the cost o...

I have been asked to let you all know that Beryl will be buried on monday 11th january at 12noon. her final resting place will be Great Bradley Cottage, Natural Burial Ground, Calverleigh Cross, Templeton, Tiverton, Devon, EX16 8BJ. (would anyone who wishes to attend please contact a member of the ...

for what its worth we have a crush but very rarly use it, we used to put our Dexters through it fot TB test, however our shed has a wire grill on one side (simillar to the stuff they lay in a concrete floor) the way we do it now two of us have a sheep hurdle (one at each end) and we just guide the ...

no disrespect to any fellow Dexter keepers but you will not find a better or more knowlegable mentor than Beryl Rutherford. I have been in livestock for more years than I care to remember and can still learn from my nightly chat with Beryl, dont worry about being a novice, Beryl's only concern is t...

for what its worth I do not think it matters how big the bull is at the moment its how big he's going to get that matters, if he is going to finish up big then these genes are in him and will almost certainly influence the size of his ofspring, I would agree with the answers above DO NOT use this b...

I agree whole heartedly with Louisa there is nothing like a herd of horned dexters to deter someone, even though our Dexters are as soft as grease we have great fun watching our landlords beaters during pheasant shooting season, they get over the fence into the field very gingerly (get over the fen...