Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Smallhold Farming and Rural Living => Livestock and Growing on a larger scale => Topic started by: Trillium on April 25, 2011, 00:29
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Here's a breed of cattle smallholders could conisder. They becoming very popular in the US and moving into Canada.
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Dexters are lovely, Grannie Annie and I bought one (dead) between us last year and the meat was delicious. Only ever seen them as black coloured but it seems they come in 3 colours, black, red and dun :D
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Yes he was delicious wasn't he Joy???
This is was he!
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only a little bit of stewing beef and mince left :(
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I cooked a bit of topside yesterday, got another 2 bits in the freezer I think, but that's about it!!!
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Dexters have been a smallholder favourite for many years. It's quite fascinating to look at the size of cattle over the last 100 years, they've gone from small to large to small to large again depending on the breeder's needs.
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Shame we couldn't afford the Lincolnshire red he had this year! :D
Picture was taken last year, so its twice the size now!
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Smallholders should always consider one of the rarer breeds. Dexter as mentioned above is a good one. Others are Irish Moilled, Red Poll or a Beltie :D
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Belties are definitley a good choice :). They are almost as hardy as the highland, require little shelter, just hay, if there is little grass otherwise they will be fine. They also have very little back covering of fat as unlike other breeds, Belties have a duble layer of hair for warmth instead of fat. We currently have a 10 month old Beltie bull at the moment at the farm, very docile, and fairly easy to halter train after he dragged me around the field and barn a couple of times!!!