Dexter Cattle For Sale Discussion Board

Linked to the thread below, we decided to sell our lastest steer to a local butcher in Nottingham. He weighed in at 142kg a side at just 27 month...on grass! Probably not a record but must be getting up there perhaps. Butcher is shocked...glad Im a member of the beef certification scheme!

Blimey, that's half a tonne on the hoof. Were his siblings similarly heavy and was he physically significantly bigger?

Other non shorts usually come in around 210 - 240 deadweight...this one was particularly tall... wish I had taken a photo now! We do not have mum anymore but she is a short red cow..from the bull Elmwood Jacob..Dad is our own bull who does throw beefy stock...who last time we weighed him he was about 620kg...photos attached

Well, it'll certainly be a hefty margin on those averages, it must be good grass; looks to have plenty of clover in the pic. I wonder why the DCS doesn't make more of the commercial value figures of beef from grass.

could not agree more...the clover in the picture has 'calmed' down ....first two years after oversowing the clover it was hard to spot the grass! Now there is a better balance, with more grass than clover. The grass being fed by the clover and looks really healthy for it...

We had the sheep on the grass/clover ley this winter - the sgraggy bunch that didn't do so well coming off the conservation grazing & needed finishing. They came off the clover after winter as different animals (nearly as big as some of the Dexters).

Thats a whooper Debra, what were his grades. I assume at that age and weight he may have been a bit fatter than usual?

Im afraid Grantham does not grade...he was carrying a little extra but not too much...butcher seemed happy enough...