Dexter Cattle For Sale Discussion Board

As all this years calves have been heifers and following a run of mostly heifers in previous years I checked the herd register and found that of the last 20 calves born, 16 were females and 4 were bull calves. Prior to this the ratio was about 50/50. This group of calves were sired by 4 different bulls. Just wondered if other breeders cattle had produced such a high proportion of either Male or female calves.

Mark S

Brereton Herd

Over a 30 year period I have had amost twice as many bull calves as heifers.

Duncan

This spring out of 12 I only had 3 heifers, in the past I have had a run of 9 bull calves on the trot but never a run of heifers...very odd.

this year of the ten to calve ....all heifers! Two more to go. We thought it odd too

So that's where the heifers are Debra Wiltshire, If Mark comes along to get some please give him some for me too.

Duncan

When I first started and wanted to build up the herd we had a run of 75% bulls, then when I wanted steers for beef they were all heifers. Now I'm beefing more heifers it's not so much of a problem but it seems that you always seem to get what you don't want...

That's the name of the game Rob.