Milking a cow and stripping a teat are two different things. Stripping is done at the end to make sure she has been completely milked out….it is not a good technique for milking the volume out.
US Department of Agriculture (USDA) secretary Brooke Rollins yesterday suspended the import of live cattle, horses, and bison across the United States’ border with Mexico due to the rapid northward spread of New World screwworm (NWS), which can cause cattle loss and has also been linked to sporadic infections in people.
I wanted to share the great experiences I am having using the Irish Dexter Cattlemen (IDC) to sell Dexter semen, Nubian goats, soaps and shampoos…I don’t have any Dexter stock available, or I would be using the site for them too.
I love using the site to write my ad once. Load pictures once. And then just copy and paste the link to what ever social media or other site I choose to use as a form of advertising what I currently have available. The link sends them to the IDC marketplace, they see all the items I have for sale. While they maybe responding to one thing…they see all our homestead has available.
They can choose to respond to me thru the site or my other contact forms. The nice part about them contacting me thru the site is….it filters our scammers and lets me talk with the buyer.
Here are a few examples of things that have been selling well for me.
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The weather is getting warmer, you’re busy outside and need something easy for dinner. Throw a Dexter chuck roast in the slow cooker and dinner is served! Make a bowl, a burrito or tacos – you can’t go wrong!
There have been some reports of cattle dying from Blackleg recently. Blackleg is one of a group of usually fatal infections in young calves and lambs caused by bacteria called the Clostridials. These bacteria are coated with a protective shell or spore that protects them and allows them to be potentially infective in the soil and dangerous to livestock for a very long time.
After a winter of feeding hay to cows, there is nothing like turning them out to green grass. After many months of feeding cattle, they can now feed themselves.
Vultures aren’t winning any beauty contests in the animal kingdom, but their look is actually essential to their ecosystem role. These not-so-beautiful birds do a great service to the environment by eating dead animals almost exclusively, and a head free of feathers means there’s nothing for those bits of flesh to get stuck in.
Many people ask me, “why Dexter’s?”. I believe it’s no accident that they have survived so long and won a special place in many hearts and minds worldwide, including mine. Dexter’s have always been a small breed which have not been miniaturised, and I believe have special characteristics to offer the people who keep them. Here, briefly is their story..
The relocation of a feral herd of 16 Dexters that lived in the Addo Elephant National Park’s Wilderness area has caught the attention of scientists after the South African Dexter Cattle Breeders’ Society became aware of the herd roaming in the park a few years ago. The society initiated the relocation of the animals to Bronkhorstspruit in Gauteng.
