Dexters
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- M62 - M1 - M18 triangle
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borderterribles
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- Location
- South Shropshire
Occasionally see them in markets, but they make b#&&er all,hence experienced Dexter owners ( which I'm NOT) are reluctant to put them in the markets, unless it can be avoided .
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
Outlets seem to be restricted to private box sales, farmers markets, and direct sales to restaurants. Quite fancy a few myself for home consumption.
It's a pity most outlets for speciality meat are restricted to main stream. I used to shoot a lot of rabbits that were given away. (I can't eat rabbit since myxy). I had one keen customer who would tell me where I had shot the rabbits as apparently the ones off the heather have a completely (and better) taste. A soay came into the ring at our local mart and I was about to stick my hand up when everyone started laughing. Pity, as I believe they are excellent eating. At one time I kept Tamworth pigs. Again, a very restricted market for quality meat.
We are to be fed on cheap imported meat and tasteless vegetables that aren't farmed to our high standards. No wonder no one can cook any more.
It's a pity most outlets for speciality meat are restricted to main stream. I used to shoot a lot of rabbits that were given away. (I can't eat rabbit since myxy). I had one keen customer who would tell me where I had shot the rabbits as apparently the ones off the heather have a completely (and better) taste. A soay came into the ring at our local mart and I was about to stick my hand up when everyone started laughing. Pity, as I believe they are excellent eating. At one time I kept Tamworth pigs. Again, a very restricted market for quality meat.
We are to be fed on cheap imported meat and tasteless vegetables that aren't farmed to our high standards. No wonder no one can cook any more.
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
From my casual browsing, they do seem to have a network of breeders selling meat privately. Google is your friend. The FB site is quite active.
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- Location
- Sir Gar, West Wales
Bought a 30 month steer privately earlier this year and he's just gone into meat boxes.
Sold 12 x £100 boxes, so all my costs are covered, and have 50kg left over for the family.
Will definitely do it again.
- Location
- North wales
I used to buy a few off a man who used a Hereford bull over them, the smaller ones went in my freezer 250kg carcass, the better quality ones I sold at market averaged £900 at 18 months this was about 4-5 years ago so from Id say they’re very efficient cows.
borderterribles
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- Location
- South Shropshire
Quite, but deadweight suppliers have produced (and been penalised by) a grid which is increasingly irrelevant, for years now,anyway.
Aspiring Peasants
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- Location
- North Pennines
I know somebody who sends them to Bowland Foods at Preston, don't know prices though
Aspiring Peasants
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- Location
- North Pennines
That's down to the food processing and distribution industry, farmers are running businesses, so they have to produce what their customer's will pay for. We have some Dexter beef in the freezer at the moment, it's good, but I've had better
This was my old stock bull ,and 3 generation cows all show winners but produced a good beef carcass with their calves.Bred then in the 80s and early 90s still got an odd cow .Like any breed good and bad .Some of the best beef you will ever taste ,used to sell in farm shop on the farm.Replaced with simmental herd .
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ritchiekirkland
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I always think of Dexters as little waist height things ! Must just have been the one we had !
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- Sir Gar, West Wales
If you are not sure where to sell them then for heavens sake don't buy them!
They are great little cows - but the only way to sell them is in boxes and that depends very much on location