{"id":8827,"date":"2025-10-06T15:22:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T19:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/?p=8827"},"modified":"2025-10-22T16:04:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T20:04:34","slug":"lets-talk-dexter-weights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/lets-talk-dexter-weights\/","title":{"rendered":"LET\u2019S TALK DEXTER WEIGHTS!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Calling all Beef Breeders!!! For anyone who likes a bit of Beef in their dual-purpose Dexters here&#8217;s something for you! Have you ever wondered what the Live weight, the Average daily weight gain of live weight, Weight of dressed Carcass, Percentage of carcass to gross live weight, Weight of loose fat and Weight of hide was on a Dexter Kerry or a Kerry and a Dexter Kerry cross was at the formation of the Royal Dublin Society in 1890? I wish all fields were complete as some are missing but it&#8217;s a good start. Well, here are some answers for you, so let&#8217;s see how these weights compare today. Comments are welcomed. By the way Tommy Titmouse was an Angus Dexter Kerry cross. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"852\" src=\"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_5984.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8828\" srcset=\"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_5984.jpeg 960w, https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_5984-300x266.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_5984-768x682.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_5984-48x43.jpeg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"791\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_5985.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8829\" srcset=\"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_5985.jpeg 791w, https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_5985-247x300.jpeg 247w, https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_5985-768x932.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_5985-48x58.jpeg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 791px) 100vw, 791px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calling all Beef Breeders!!! For anyone who likes a bit of Beef in their dual-purpose Dexters here&#8217;s something for you! Have you ever wondered what the Live weight, the Average daily weight gain of live weight, Weight of dressed Carcass, Percentage of carcass to gross live weight, Weight of loose fat and Weight of hide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4535,"featured_media":8828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[21,135,137,24],"class_list":["post-8827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-historical","tag-beef","tag-food","tag-irishdexters","tag-selling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4535"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}