Hello

[Carrog]

Just recently started keeping Dexters - looking forward to 'virtually' meeting you all and picking your brains for clues to the best ways forward with the new cows.

[Saffy]

Hello Carrog,

Very nice to meet you, hope to virtually meet your cows as well soon, maybe you could post some pics?

Stephanie

[Rob R]

Good call - we don't get enough photos posted

[Carrog]

Hello Stephanie

Literally only began as a Dexter keeper two or three weeks ago - so only have two at the moment, both Dun heifers. The plan is to try and build up to about 10 over the next two summers.

Stephen

[Rob R]

I'm trying to increase the number of dun animals - are those the two that I saw advertised on preloved recently?

[Carrog]

Hi Rob

Yes they were! I'll get some pictures up - but I don't suppose they're particularly special examples. A good start for us though.

Stephen

[Saffy]

Whew dun heifers...I am a bit of a sucker for dun colouring myself, you obviously have good taste!

Here is a pic of my oldest cow Nutlin Ginger Spice being a hooligan a couple of months ago.



The one below is a cow I once owned but she is sadly now deceased but she was lovely! Woodmagic Palm Chat.




Stephanie

[Rob R]

Hi Rob

Yes they were! I'll get some pictures up - but I don't suppose they're particularly special examples. A good start for us though.

Stephen

I can't actually remember what they looked like, I just remember thinking 'ooh, some dun heifers, I'll take a look at that later', but when I searched later they had gone!

I'm also in the dun fan club, along with the wild type reds. We have two dun heifers at the moment; this one, pictured as a yearling, and a more recent purchase this spring.

[Saffy]

Very nice Rob, I like the first one best, the darker one of the two but the other one looks as if she has a lovely soft coat and therefore should have an equally soft udder when she calves.

Stephanie

[Rob R]

Thank you - we've also had two born over the years out of black cattle, the first was a steer that was registered as black (completely unexpected) and turned dun over the next three months and the second was a heifer but it wasn't the best of examples so she was culled. Having started out as a red & black herd our bought-in black bull carries dun but I didn't realise that at the time so it was a complete surprise with the first one!

[Rob R]

BTW, I stumbled upon some pictures of the cattle from the herd dispersal that was at Melton this year (the one that completely managed to pass me by) the other night, while looking for something else. And wished I hadn't.

[Saffy]

Rob...Those are some pretty cattle the black as well as the duns!

Stephanie

[Rob R]

Rob...Those are some pretty cattle the black as well as the duns!

Stephanie

Yes, yes I know now...!

[Rob R]

As mentioned in the link above, Burnside Herald;

Photo 1

Photo 2

As filched from the Burnside Facebook page

[sianelin]

Hello to you all. We are also new to Dexter keeping.
We have 4 Dun heifers at the moment