Volume 16 - Issue 7, Mar. 27 - Apr. 9, 1999 India's National Magazine from the publishers of THE HINDU A Cow and a Controversy An allegation with implications...
Always helps to meet a cow's nutrient energy requirement early in lactation, so she gets into a producing groove and can persist to end of lactation. Starving...
1 year old Black med leg bull W/horns. Good framed and well proportioned. Also 2 yearling heifers, and 2 heifers to be weened soon. All black with horns, med...
What part of the country are you in? ... From: rsdexters2000 To: dextercattleonly@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 1:11 PM Subject:...
Tell us about Bovine Bluelite, please. I think I need to get some. Mom always gave new mothers a bucket of warm water with molasses as soon as they were up...
I'd like to know what's in the Bovine Bluelite, also. I was thinking about moving Spirit (new cow) up to the barn paddock, when she is getting close to...
I probably can get it trucked in. I was actually thinking about what is grown right here in my neighborhood. I actually think it is a matter of what they...
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This may sound really ignorant. At what temps do y'all provide extra heat for your cows? It's been getting down to the upper 40's at night in Corpus Christi....
Absolutely no extra heat! Warm, damp conditions are very unhealthy for animals. Good ventilation without a draft is more important than warmth. Lots of good...
My Dexters are quite happy at temperatures down to ten below zero. When the temperatures are that low I make sure that they have plenty of bedding in their...
I live in Northern lower Mich and my cows would rather be outside standing in the snow then in the barn. I have a portahut in the pasture area they use in the...
Thanks, My perception of cold is a little warped, seeing that I've lived most of my life with 30 miles of the Gulf of Mexico. Al ... From: "Margaret L Wilson"...
I wish I knew more about genetics. I hate hot and humid weather and hot and dry is no better. I grew up where/when it was very cold and snowy. My Dad said...
... most of my ... I had to laugh when I read your first message b/c I knew just how you felt. I spent the first half of my life in San Diego County and used...
When our son was little we lived in Puerto Rico. The coldest temperature we ever had was 68 degrees. As it happened he and his grandmother shared a birthday,...
Someone called me today and wants to buy a cow for milking. She wants a Dexter or a Jersey/Dexter cross. I told her that an adult Dexter milking cow for sale...
More cows wanted on the West Coast. If anyone hears of or knows of milking or milkable cows I have someone looking, also. Dexters or Dexter X Jersey are...
Having never observed a herd of Dexters, I don't know the difference between normal pecking order behavior and aggression that needs intervention. Nema, who...
Hi Kim! How long have you tried putting them together? I know we added a very very shy timid cow (not to people to other cows) I think she feels like a human...
... Just for a few minutes. My DH is convinced that Nema will hurt Lucy. I wanted to find out whether this behavior is normal before leaving them together...
Well you may want to see if someone posts a reply on this list or the other two lists, but I know that our pour Jingles was bunted and horned, she never got...
Gale, I'm posting this reply on the newsgroup because I'd like to share what we've been discussing with the group. Please excuse me for this. The CCC...
No problem, Gene...we have some pretty good discussions! Poor little CCC...just 3 months old and was used as a roping calf??? Not at all a nice start in...
Gale, I put a picture of Brownie, the CCC (Concentration Camp Calf) in the Paradise Farm Folder. None of the pictures I've taken show just how skinny she...