Dexters
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IL Rancher
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Believe it or not we do have some Dexters here, the wife thought they were cute too,lol.. We sell the steers as freezer beef and get okay money for them but they probably would work real well for team roping..
There just like pets or hutterite milk cows :lol: IL Rancher
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We sell them for a 1.25 to 1.5 a pound life weight and the customer pays for processing.. But we can get that out of Angus steers to if we sell direct "natural" or grass fed beef pretty good.. Per acre you might be able to make money but I doubt it lasts and you have to have an outlet for steers as the bull calves are worthless. I might just sell them all if it was up to me but my wife likes them and I guess that is more important than me wanting to get rid of them.
AS far as them being gentle I had one that would have been a good steer wrestling/bull fighting bull. He came at me a couple times and I had to throw tim to thr ground by his horns and sit on hm... He was only 9 months old or so so probably was 350-400 pounds (A real dog to be honest)... Much bigger and I would have bene in trouble...#%#%$^$ came at me twice that day.
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AS far as them being gentle I had one that would have been a good steer wrestling/bull fighting bull. He came at me a couple times and I had to throw tim to thr ground by his horns and sit on hm... He was only 9 months old or so so probably was 350-400 pounds (A real dog to be honest)... Much bigger and I would have bene in trouble...#%#%$^$ came at me twice that day.
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Faster horses
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Do either of you have a picture of them? What do they look like?
Never heard of them.
Have you ever heard of White Park cattle?
Never heard of them.
Have you ever heard of White Park cattle?
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Faster horses
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Thanks. They're really small. Might be kinda fun to have a couple when a person retires.
On second thought, nah... :wink:
On second thought, nah... :wink:
PureCountry
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We sold one of our herd bulls to some good friends who grass finish Dexters. They cut their own beef, and he said he wanted to use a Galloway to get a little larger carcass. Main reason being that if he was going to go through all that work of skinning, gutting and cutting, he'd like to end up with a few more pounds in the cooler to show for it.
Northern Rancher
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Faster Horses supposedly the best line of bucking cattle in the U'S go back to White Park cattle-those pretty black and white spotted bulls on the PBR. From what I know White Parks are a wild breed of cattle from Britain.
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The banker in Western Montana tried them. Different, and very tame.
Kinda marked like some Longhorns, only thicker and always had a black nose and black inside their ears. Rest of the body was white with black specks, pretty big specks, some of 'em.
Didn't know they were the background for bucking bulls. Interesting.
Kinda marked like some Longhorns, only thicker and always had a black nose and black inside their ears. Rest of the body was white with black specks, pretty big specks, some of 'em.
Didn't know they were the background for bucking bulls. Interesting.
IL Rancher
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Yeah, Dexters are a bit small althouh some are smaller than others... They were our first cows....
White Parks... there are three different kinds. You have your traditonal White parks which are horned and than you have your British whites and AMerican whites that sometimes get called white Parks as wel... they are all interesting cattle...
We have ran a couple of our Dexters withour commercial herd the last couple years The calves at 5 months old this year are not very distinguishalbe from the straight angus calves...
White Parks... there are three different kinds. You have your traditonal White parks which are horned and than you have your British whites and AMerican whites that sometimes get called white Parks as wel... they are all interesting cattle...
We have ran a couple of our Dexters withour commercial herd the last couple years The calves at 5 months old this year are not very distinguishalbe from the straight angus calves...
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http://www.xsorbit2.com/users/thebreedersconnection/index.cgi?board=connection&action=display&num=1149348346
There you go faster horses don't say I never research for you lol.
There you go faster horses don't say I never research for you lol.
Faster horses
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Yep, that's the kind of cattle the banker in Deer Lodge had.
Interesting, thanks.
Interesting, thanks.
Northern Rancher
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I sat at the banquet at one of Leachman's sales with a banker from Deer LOdge wonder if it was the same guy lol.
Faster horses
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Probably. No too tall. Impressed with himself? How long ago would that have been? He's been out of the bank for a long time now. Sold it long ago.
He bought a bunch of yearlings and sent them to the Centennial Valley.
I mean like 1500 head and he didn't know anything about cattle.
That deal took him down a notch or two.
His dad was the one who knew something and when he passed away,
the son had a ball...for awhile.
What we didn't understand, since he knew nothing about the cattle business, why didn't he try 200 head, not 1500.
He had a girlfriend he took along, and our old cowboy friend who helped him with the cattle, called the girlfriend a "Double breasted mattress thrasher."
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He bought a bunch of yearlings and sent them to the Centennial Valley.
I mean like 1500 head and he didn't know anything about cattle.
That deal took him down a notch or two.
His dad was the one who knew something and when he passed away,
the son had a ball...for awhile.
What we didn't understand, since he knew nothing about the cattle business, why didn't he try 200 head, not 1500.
He had a girlfriend he took along, and our old cowboy friend who helped him with the cattle, called the girlfriend a "Double breasted mattress thrasher."
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