Dexter Cattle For Sale Discussion Board

maybe we should have a standard that just puts a limit on excessive heights, and leave the small end alone. I'm sure there is a market for teeny tiny animals, and if that's what Duncan has managed to breed, good on'im. Supposedly one of the traits that makes Dexters Dexters is small size, and there'...

Hi Duncan. If I may insert a 'yeah, but..' here, I know it's possible to breed for height and NOT use chondro to do it, but how many others out there understand how to do this, or are able to with only a few animals and limited bulls? By the sounds of things, your animals are an exception. So, are y...

ah, I've been arguing about this for 30 years. Everyone agrees the chondro gene affects height, and surely we all know the standard was set for dwarfs (the only type registered at the time), so of course we have many animals that cannot fit within the standard. Julie Cavanagh found a 6" differe...

uh, John, if your copy came from 'outside the Society' and others are asking where you got it, telling them to get theirs from the Society doesn't wash. Why the secrecy? c.

Well said, Duncan. Thank you. A number of old reference books (1837-1920) attribute the source of the Suffolk Dun to Norwegian or Scandinavian Dun, which in turn are considered the basis for the Icelandic cattle. If these have been proven wrong, then I'm more than happy to withdraw the part of my co...

Well said, Duncan. Thank you. A number of old reference books (1837-1920) attribute the source of the Suffolk Dun to Norwegian or Scandinavian Dun, which in turn are considered the basis for the Icelandic cattle. If these have been proven wrong, then I'm more than happy to withdraw the part of my co...

Thanks, Patti. I was going to approach this from a slightly different place: Anton of Mt. Carmel was registered as red, but was genetically brown. John Potter owned Twainland Caitlin, genetically brown. Neither have a whiff of Wm blood. Both have some post-fdn import English blood, but none of it in...

Monica, I think Duncan would be the most experienced person to respond to that. I wonder if it would be possible to identify Red Poll genes from a (guessed at) illicit cross generations ago vs. the mishmash of genes found in the genetic soup that makes up Dexters? After all, for 43 years, as long as...

It's been a while, but I think it had something to do with a major dairy-focused evaluator looking at the average Dexter and scoring it as though it had to be a production animal. I seem to remember getting a copy of the classification material and I'm pretty sure it was from the British Freisian as...

No sweat, Margaret. I started out thinking the bright reds were little e and the irish setters were E+, because that's what my samples showed. Once John Potter got going with huge numbers of various combinations, I got straightened out. While at Cornahir, before the big herd reduction, all the anim...

Hi all, a kind Dexter person emailed me colour questions had been raised, and thought I might help. Hi Margaret...hope all is well with you and yours down under. Let's see. All pure reds and all reds with black ANYWHERE can be E+/E+ or E+/e or e/e. No black skin. All colours of red can be found in ...