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Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 10:09 am
by nz dexter
In New Zealand there was a programme on climate change on tv and they talked about cattle being farmed in Greenland for the first time. A man had 16 cattle and they looked like Dexters black, horned and quite small. Can anyone confirm this?
Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 1:35 pm
by wagra dexters
We watched the same program, and commented that if not Dexter, they could possibly have been L'Herens.
Margaret.
Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 2:09 pm
by Broomcroft
Is the program available on the web anywhere? So we can all have a look.
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 12:54 pm
by wagra dexters
Sorry, I can't remember what it was on. Perhaps nz dexters can help. May have been ABC TV Foreign Correspondent or Four Corners, about global warming and the Greenland ice sheets.
Margaret
Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 9:46 am
by nz dexter
It was on a programme called "Sunday" which airs on a sunday evening and has current affairs stories.
Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 6:04 pm
by Louisa Gidney
Well, this topic intrigued me. So, I chased one of my colleagues who works in the North Atlantic. He couldn't help but passed me on to the Zoology Dept of NABO (yes B for Biocultural), who can't actually help either but the boss is beating jungle drums & sending post-grads scurrying to feed me data on the archaeological cattle bones from Greenland. This internet thing really is quite amazing! I will let you know when more info arrives.
Certainly the Norse settlers of Greenland had Dexter size cattle & the NABO team are interested in finding where the ancestral stock came from.
Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 6:56 pm
by Rutherford
That is fascinating; please do keep us posted. I am sure the little Celtic cow has a much longer history than the ‘experts’ credit it with..
Beryl (Woodmagic)