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Small Dexter, castrate or sell?

  • 10-03-2014 10:21am
    #1
    nihicib2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 378 ✭✭


    Looking for some advice, I have a 14 month old Dexter who is about 33/34 inches tall. His mother died three days after calving and I bottle fed him so that might be part of the reason why he's so small. I have two others as well (i just have a smallholding) and they need to be castrated soon but my dilemma is that he might not be worth keeping for beef because of his size. I wonder would he be of any use for breeding for somebody else, he's a purebred but I never registered him with the Dexter society as I assumed he would be heading for the freezer?

    Any ideas?


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  • #2
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,410 ✭✭✭bbam


    nihicib2 wrote: »
    Looking for some advice, I have a 14 month old Dexter who is about 33/34 inches tall. His mother died three days after calving and I bottle fed him so that might be part of the reason why he's so small. I have two others as well (i just have a smallholding) and they need to be castrated soon but my dilemma is that he might not be worth keeping for beef because of his size. I wonder would he be of any use for breeding for somebody else, he's a purebred but I never registered him with the Dexter society as I assumed he would be heading for the freezer?

    Any ideas?

    Probably best keep him going to the freezer..
    I couldn't see anyone buying him to breed off for fear he has the runt gene and passes it on, wouldn't be worth the risk.


  • #3
    nihicib2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 378 ✭✭nihicib2


    Sorry I should have mentioned that he is a Short Legged Dexter so he was never going to be huge but he definitely is smaller than his brothers before him


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