Dexters in greenland???

nz dexter · Post by **nz dexter** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 10:09 am

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?

wagra dexters · Post by **wagra dexters** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 1:35 pm

We watched the same program, and commented that if not Dexter, they could possibly have been L'Herens.
Margaret.

Broomcroft · Post by **Broomcroft** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 2:09 pm

Is the program available on the web anywhere? So we can all have a look.

wagra dexters · Post by **wagra dexters** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 12:54 pm

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

nz dexter · Post by **nz dexter** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 9:46 am

It was on a programme called "Sunday" which airs on a sunday evening and has current affairs stories.

Louisa Gidney · Post by **Louisa Gidney** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 6:04 pm

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.

Rutherford · Post by **Rutherford** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 6:56 pm

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)