Dexter Cattle For Sale Discussion Board

Hi We've also been having problems with New Forest Eye, the heifer's and heifer calves seemed particulalry vulnerable. We started using ointment and the vet gaves us an antibiotic injection for the first calf as she was off her food and fed up. However when we had 4 affected at the same time we cal...

Hi We've also been having problems with New Forest Eye, the heifer's and heifer calves seemed particulalry vulnerable. We started using ointment and the vet gaves us an antibiotic injection for the first calf as she was off her food and fed up. However when we had 4 affected at the same time we cal...

Nature's a wonderful thing! I know more about deer and they can reabsorb the foetus if under stress during the early winter, but this is only at an early stage of development. They will then pass a tidy parcel of the bits they couldn't absorb without any apparent problem, self preservation I guess....

Nature's a wonderful thing! I know more about deer and they can reabsorb the foetus if under stress during the early winter, but this is only at an early stage of development. They will then pass a tidy parcel of the bits they couldn't absorb without any apparent problem, self preservation I guess....

Are Dexter's prone to staggers? In what situation would you advise providing magnesium licks, or don't you find they're really necessary. Our vet suggested we should provide licks in the autumn when we took delivery of our cattle a year ago because of the risks with the autumn flush of grass, but t...

Are Dexter's prone to staggers? In what situation would you advise providing magnesium licks, or don't you find they're really necessary. Our vet suggested we should provide licks in the autumn when we took delivery of our cattle a year ago because of the risks with the autumn flush of grass, but t...

Can those of you with more experience than us novices suggest whether it's the breeding bull or bull calves that are the cause of the problem? One of our bull calves, born in early April, trails the bull when he's trailing round after a bulling cow. Presumably if the heifer calf is sexually mature ...

Can those of you with more experience than us novices suggest whether it's the breeding bull or bull calves that are the cause of the problem? One of our bull calves, born in early April, trails the bull when he's trailing round after a bulling cow. Presumably if the heifer calf is sexually mature ...