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<blockquote data-quote="Gale Seddon" data-source="post: 332324" data-attributes="member: 53"><p>GaDexFarmer, I feel your pain. I think it can be difficult to sell bulls, whatever the breed, and something best left to those who specialize in breeding bulls for herd sires. Little Cow has some very good suggestions. Traffic on the Dexter Yahoo boards is intermittent, at best. Have you checked with your regional director; she may know of someone looking for a bull (go to the <a href="http://www.dextercattle.org" target="_blank">http://www.dextercattle.org</a> and look under Officers/Directors. If you take a Dexter bull (or a Dexter anything) to a livestock auction (unless it's a special sale for exotics or something), you'll get slammed for horns as well as size. I could be way off here, but seriously doubt you'll get anything close to $500.</p><p></p><p>Keeping extra bulls around in hopes of selling them can be a real management problem (separate pastures, etc.) because you can't jeopardize your breeding program by running more than one bull with your cows and not knowing which bull sired which calf (and I would not want to rely on standard DNA parentage testing with closely related animals). Several years back, we had 6 calves born and 5 were bulls. I had no idea what I was going to do with them, but people came looking for an animal to finish for their own beef, so I no longer worry about having too many bull calves. That would be my suggestion: have the vet out to castrate them and advertise them as beef animals to finish, or finish them yourself and split them among family and friends. Word of mouth is a powerful thing and Dexter beef is good.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gale Seddon, post: 332324, member: 53"] GaDexFarmer, I feel your pain. I think it can be difficult to sell bulls, whatever the breed, and something best left to those who specialize in breeding bulls for herd sires. Little Cow has some very good suggestions. Traffic on the Dexter Yahoo boards is intermittent, at best. Have you checked with your regional director; she may know of someone looking for a bull (go to the [url=http://www.dextercattle.org]http://www.dextercattle.org[/url] and look under Officers/Directors. If you take a Dexter bull (or a Dexter anything) to a livestock auction (unless it's a special sale for exotics or something), you'll get slammed for horns as well as size. I could be way off here, but seriously doubt you'll get anything close to $500. Keeping extra bulls around in hopes of selling them can be a real management problem (separate pastures, etc.) because you can't jeopardize your breeding program by running more than one bull with your cows and not knowing which bull sired which calf (and I would not want to rely on standard DNA parentage testing with closely related animals). Several years back, we had 6 calves born and 5 were bulls. I had no idea what I was going to do with them, but people came looking for an animal to finish for their own beef, so I no longer worry about having too many bull calves. That would be my suggestion: have the vet out to castrate them and advertise them as beef animals to finish, or finish them yourself and split them among family and friends. Word of mouth is a powerful thing and Dexter beef is good. [/QUOTE]
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