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Mark Bowles
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Hi Jean, sadly if your potential show heifer has 2 white socks then i am afraid she is not up to breed standard and not really suitable for showing.
I have had a red non-short heifer this year with 2 white patches on her rear legs, and a white tassle to her tail, i have only birth notified her with the DCS and she will go into the beef chain.
I have had a red non-short heifer this year with 2 white patches on her rear legs, and a white tassle to her tail, i have only birth notified her with the DCS and she will go into the beef chain.
Mark Bowles
Linford Dexters
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Jean
Mark is being very kind in saying that Delilah should not be shown. She is not up to breed standard and if presented in the ring could be publicly told to leave, as I have seen happen, or stood at the end of the line and a quiet word from the judge explaining the embarassment.
The breed standard says:-
'Wholly black, wholly red and wholly dun are of equal merit. A little white will not disqualify, but must be limited to:- Cows,a small amount on the udder and underline, in the tassel of the tail and on the vulva. There must be no white forward of the navel or on any other part of the body.'
The animal you have described should not be registrered as pedigree never mind shown. Some years ago council agreed that animals which ticked the box 'excess white' on the registration card were entitled to be registered as Grade 'C' and their progeny as full pedigree if they did not carry white. Whether white feet qualifies as 'excess white' only council can decide as I have never seen a defdinition of this expression.
The animal as described would/should not have been accepted at a Society approved sale. I have had a similar problem in the past, and white feet are a sure sign of cross breeding in the near (or possibly distant) past. As Mark says the only real solution to eliminate the problem is the beef chain.
Sorry! Ian
Mark is being very kind in saying that Delilah should not be shown. She is not up to breed standard and if presented in the ring could be publicly told to leave, as I have seen happen, or stood at the end of the line and a quiet word from the judge explaining the embarassment.
The breed standard says:-
'Wholly black, wholly red and wholly dun are of equal merit. A little white will not disqualify, but must be limited to:- Cows,a small amount on the udder and underline, in the tassel of the tail and on the vulva. There must be no white forward of the navel or on any other part of the body.'
The animal you have described should not be registrered as pedigree never mind shown. Some years ago council agreed that animals which ticked the box 'excess white' on the registration card were entitled to be registered as Grade 'C' and their progeny as full pedigree if they did not carry white. Whether white feet qualifies as 'excess white' only council can decide as I have never seen a defdinition of this expression.
The animal as described would/should not have been accepted at a Society approved sale. I have had a similar problem in the past, and white feet are a sure sign of cross breeding in the near (or possibly distant) past. As Mark says the only real solution to eliminate the problem is the beef chain.
Sorry! Ian
Joan and Ian Simpson
Pennielea Farm
Glenavy
Co Antrim
Pennielea Farm
Glenavy
Co Antrim
DNA profiling will help you find out if the bull you thought was the sire, actually is the sire. The NZ Dexter Society has now made it compulsory to file the DNA profile of any bull calf being registered, before it can have full registration. This way, if there is a query as to the sire, the profile is already on file with the Society and the DNA profile of the calf can be matched up. It ensures that the pedigree of any calf can be verified.
I had an occassion, a few years ago, when a cow that I had been waiting for 2 years to give me a calf, finally did. BUT when I saw it, I needed no DNA test to tell me that the sire must have been the neighbour's hereford bull, rather than our Dexter bull, as she had a white face. Very disappointing, but she sold for a reasonable amount at the salesyards, as a yearling. In fact her white face helped to sell her. Seems like people prefer white faced beef animals. No accounting for taste.
I had an occassion, a few years ago, when a cow that I had been waiting for 2 years to give me a calf, finally did. BUT when I saw it, I needed no DNA test to tell me that the sire must have been the neighbour's hereford bull, rather than our Dexter bull, as she had a white face. Very disappointing, but she sold for a reasonable amount at the salesyards, as a yearling. In fact her white face helped to sell her. Seems like people prefer white faced beef animals. No accounting for taste.
Inger
NZ
NZ