Dan, maybe if you have a trailer with a middle door, split them up, but that's not always possible depending on the trailer and the amount of cows. Maybe ask...
dan, we use a steel stock trailer with a separator panel, they each get their own area to go nuts in, if one does. they can still poke at each other through...
dan, you have just met the number one reason beef producers prefer polled animals. horns are really pretty, but they are dangerous during shipping. my beef...
Does anyone know if there is someone who may start doing the genetic testing again? I was out with my cattle this morning. I swear, that while some have longer...
... If I've read everything correctly, it is only the chrondrodysplasia gene that they are targeting and (apparently) there are short-legged cattle without the...
... legged ... Maybe there are dwarf cattle that don't carry the gene, but where are they? Does someone have them? If they test clear are they not considered a...
... In the Australian study available on the Dextercattle site under "Science", it is stated that 83% of the short leg cattle are carriers. I assume that it...
... Do you know if anything is being done to get someone TO start doing the testing? Is there someone in charge or follwing it? Surely some of the gene testing...
The final decision is up to the lab in Australia that owns the test procedure and has to license it to a lab in the states to do it. Last I heard there were a...
... In calves with this type of weight gain, do you end up being really LARGE adults or do they just attain their final weight quicker? Have you grown out any...
Ok y'all.....the pictures of the crew is up on the dextercattleonly pictures
page under Collier Homestead. Let me know what you think. Here's the pedigree...
Thanks to everyone who replied! Carol - we had a middle door, but the floor in the back half is not as good as the floor in the front half as it has just been...
Hi Gene, We put stuff on her right away, all of ours except one has horns on & we have hauled as many as 4 horned ones in the same half of the trailer at once...
Thanks Nina! Yes, we're thrilled. I'd like to see them a tad more tame,
but I've got patience....they'll be eating out of my hand before too
long--as well as...
My own concern is that if the bull is free of the chondro gene but short legged, what made him short legged? Is it out of the frying pan; into the fire?...
Gary Wiggington in Jasper, Georgia has quite a large herd of Dexters. He used to be the moderator of this group and recently said he was going to try to get...
you can go to the adca website at dextercattle.org and check out the list of breeders in your area. should have their numbers and maybe email addresses also....
There is a lab available now and last I heard PDCA was starting to collect hair samples for testing. Anthony Bauer <antbauer@...> wrote:The final decision...
I have some photos on my website that might help with the red/dun question. www.californiadextercattle.com -Gabriella One more question, what is the difference...
... said ... on ... I ... Margot, thanks for the info. I live about about sixty miles south of Gray in a small community named Haynesville. Try the Old Clinton...
I'm looking for a yearling steer or heifer near Petersburg, Virginia. Dexter or Dexter cross, either one. I'd like to take advantage of my abundant grass to...
we have a few of themm hanging around getting fat....not quite yearling though. give gale a call this evening at 540 894 5571 to talk about em....smile.... we...
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