howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i have heard that said roger, very untrue.
the dexters are totally docile and the ponies friendly and quite timid.
last year i was up there when two small terriers raced up to the ponies and started barking which upset the ponies who responded by stopping grazing and acting in a nervous manner.
it is common sense to keep dogs on leads when passing grazing animals.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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just to emphasise the importance of grazing, this is one minute section of clarendon field and there are loads more fields all over white cliffs country.
as you can see here the dexters have their work cut out keeping the grass down.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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This should be done in military fashion:
get a few hundred Dexter cattle up there, employ four herdsmen (paid work), open a dairy (paid work), sell the milk = employment and income.
Brian Dixon
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alex old chap can i gently remind you that those dexters are bullocks [male cows] and they do not produse milk in any way,shape or form.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Been nice knowing you :)
Jan Higgins
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Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Now that was funny
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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How are Dexter cattle born, if they don't have mother cows?
Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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Doesn't the stork leave them under the hawthorn bushes up there?
Back to reality, Alexander will love this description -
"The Dexter originated in the South Western region of Ireland. Like the Kerry, they are descended from the predominately black cattle of the early Celts."
http://www.dextercattle.co.uk/Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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"producing excellent beef and milk"
quoted fro the article in Ray's link!
So Dexter cattle produce milk. Why then have I been laughed at on the Forum and made to believe I live on another planet???
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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The problem is Alexander, milking cows tend to stay accessible to dairies to be milked not on the on the side of a hill roaming free, which is why those on the Heights are male....
Been nice knowing you :)
Guest 671- Registered: 4 May 2008
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When I worked on the ferries, I always asked the americans if they wanted cows milk or bulls milk,
in their coffee.
"Oh gee, I'll have bulls milk, please, I've never tasted bull's milk" most would reply.
"My New Year's Resolution, is to try and emulate Marek's level of chilled out, thoughtfulness and humour towards other forumites and not lose my decorum"
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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In our early (70s) days in the middle east, camel milk was easier to find than cows' milk, which prompted the daily question 'one hump or two?'.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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any prospective volunteers to cover aycliffe will need a head for heights as the cattle certainly have.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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the next area in need of volunteers is "drop redoubt field" where 4 dexter cattle were relocated today, the 3 at st martins battery were due to join them but refused to budge this time.
if you know anyone that would be interested the number to ring is 01304 214806.
