Hi, My family has been thinking about adding a few cattle to our small farm (we currently breed and raise Mammoth donkeys) and the Dexters intrigued us so I...
Hi Anita, and welcome...I "know" you from one of the donkey lists. We raise Dexters and miniature donkeys in central Virginia. You will see a lot of...
Hi, even though this one is entitled DexterCattle2, I think it was the original one, but I don't know where the first bunch of messages would be....I believe...
... will ... about ... can ... in ... Hi Gale, Yes I recognzied you too! We are in west central Illinois, and yes, I surfed the ADCA site, some member...
When I joined in July the archives back to the first message were shown on the Yahoo page for this group. Now fewer posts are shown but if you go into the...
Anita, we DO have donkeys and cows together because we HAVE to, but given my 'druthers, I would not. My goal is to not mix them, but until we have enough...
... Bill In dextercattle2@yahoogroups.com, "galefb_22408 <galefb@h...>" ... each ... cow ... the ... all ... without ... field ... the ... mother ... were...
I could give you a long discription of long-legged, short-legged, dwarf, medium-legged, but what it really boils down to is the most important of all is those...
Could you tell me please, what the approx leg size is for short and long. I have a dexter and was told she was a medium. Then when I saw other dexter's which...
Thank you for explaining to me. I have measured her and she is 42". I have breed her to a long legged bull. Thanks again Nic I want you to know that with...
Hi all Could someone please tell me what is the 'ideal' age for a heifer to go to a bull for the first time.I've been reading up but am just getting more...
Typically for the first calf heifer you'd want to breed her at 15 months of age, so she calves at 2 years. The ADCA will not register calves from cows bred too...
The age of 15 months is the "magical" commercial age that is always quoted but it is a bit inaccurate or to put more appropriately, a very rough estimate. The...
Anthony, thank you for your great post! I, too, have read so often about having them calve at 24 months of age, but my observation with our Dexters is that...
Does anyone have any ideas on barn design with Dexters in mind,stall size, height of stalls etc. Has anyone built a barn just for their Dexters? Mine don't...
We had a 5 stall horse barn with 10x12 stalls that we kept our Dexters in, but then we got too many Dexters and split all the stalls to 10x6 "Dexter Stalls"...
... mind,stall ... place ... Hi Carol I found heaps of ideas on a site called the Canada Plan Service. Im unsure of the exact address but if you type that into...
We built our barn specifically for Dexters and it has worked well. There are eight 8x8 stalls, four on each side of the barn, 4' high with oak sidewalls and...
Thanks guys, this has given me some good ideas. Mary lynn, how much sand do you have as a base? Was it compacted when you put it in? Floors are a whole other...
Your barn sounds wonderful. Got pictures???? I would love to see it. DH and eldest DS are pounding away adding a large 3 sided shelter as I write. We are...
-I made a shed for my dexters. 18ft. long by 12 ft. wide, 7ft. tall roof in back--10 ft. tall roof in the front, open only to the south, and a 12 ft. wide ...
We are looking for Dexter calves for our children to show in 4H this year.We are located in Indiana, and if anybody knows of any for sale in the area,...
... Hello sunbunny, what r- u looking fer , heifers,? bulls,? , black,? red? or dun,? long-leg? or short-leg? And u- r at the place to find a Dexter to fit...
We're in Michigan about 30 miles north of the Indiana border and have several Dexter calves for sale. LL red bull, calved 11/02 and a heifer or two. Looking...
... this ... sale ... Hi, we are also in Michigan, between Grand Rapids and Holland. We also have several calves for sale, including a couple of steers, and 4...
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