Dexter Cattle For Sale Discussion Board

Prospective buyers should mark the 22nd September in the diary, the date of the Carlisle Show and Sale.

There are 3 bulls, 50 females about 20 of which have calves at foot, three steers and 2 cross females for sale, from 14 different consigners. Prefixes in the catalogue will include Ashieburn, Bankend, Bay Rigg, Breoch, Cresswell, Fothergill, Harron, Nithsdale, Penny Bridge, Planetree, Redfern,Swinburne, Whalton Manor, Windyknowe and Zanfara.

This sale has seen a good trade for the last two years, with no silly prices but almost everyanimal sold and for the most part both buyers and sellers happy, so lets hope this year will be the third. It is a good opportunity for buyers to see a variety of cattle from a numbe of well known lines in an inspected sale.

Duncan

Cant wait!!

this is the first time in years i will be able to attend, so great to hear there are lots of entries.

is the catalogue available yet?


dom

Catalogue should be out soon Dom, if you go to

http://www.livestock-sales.co.uk/stock/rare_breed.html

you can go to the bottom of the page and register to have an email when it is out.

Duncan

This years sale and the breed have had another good writeup on the stackyard website.

http://www.stackyard.com/news/2012/09/b ... exter.html

Will be travelling over on friday for the weekend

Great write up, but its killing me........ where is the catalogue!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i wish they would get it done!

d

catalogue is now available online for the carlisle sale

http://www.livestock-sales.co.uk/2012/r ... /0922.html

Just putting this to the top.

My wee bull Dougal has just been very kindly put on the for sale web pages. he will be at Carlisle. he is no show animal so i dont how he will behave having just been halter brocken and a ring fitted 2 weeks ago. he has a good temprament and good to work with.
he is a good bull, great calves and he know his job!

Thanks

Dom

Now it is all over, Friday night a "meet the Council" night and the show and sale on the Saturday.

Show Bull class - 1st Breoch Ptarmigan; 2nd Nithsdale Dougal; 3rd Harron Loyal Commando
Cow class -
Senior Heifer class - 1st Planetree Medea; 2nd Bankened Aphrodite; 3rd Planetree Io
Junion Heifer - 1st Harron Fleur-de-Lys; 2nd Zanfara Rebekeline; 3rd Harron Fly
Champion Planetree Medea, Reserve Champion Harron Fleur-de-Lys

2 bulls sold, high £2000, low £860, average £1430
18 cows sold, high £900, low £200, average £490
22 heifers sold, high £810, low £200, average £371
Steers 15months, 3 sold, average £410

Unofficial figures at this stage.

Duncan

I don't suppose the steers had liveweights on them, did they Duncan?

I think the steers were about 300, 250 and 250kgs Rob. they were, as you would expect from Veronica, in very good condition.

I don't know what information Dom Smith has on the dimensions of my pockets(most have holes in them) but as a result of the purchase of Harron Loyal Commando my own young bull Burnside Kinsman will now be on the market and should appear on this site soon. He is about 15 months old, has run with some heifers this summer, and has been reared in the usual Burnside way with absolutely no concentrate feed and no fertiliser used on the grass. He is by Owram Electric Eric,(an Apple Joe son) and Burnside Candytuft, a fourth generation Burnside cow and herself dam of 4 cows and heifers in the Burnside herd.

Duncan

Thanks - I'm glad I wasn't there then, as I'd find it hard to resist temptation, and really need more infrastructure before more cattle, but infrastructure never has the same effect as buying more animals...