WHY IS MY DEXTER RED? pasture & calving update, and helping a cow & calf bond
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- Dexter cattle are usually black, but they can also be red and dun colors! Join me as I walk through our Dexter herd, showing new calves and the state of spring pasture grazing. I explain a problem we had with a new Mom and her calf bonding and how we helped them, and go over the basic genetics that created a red line of Dexters within our herd.
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Went back to one of your old videos, nice quality content..keep them coming
Pete, I am glad you are a student because that makes you a great teacher. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and presenting the information in an easy to understand manner. Your enthusiasm is heart-warming.
Lovely video. We recently purchased our first Dexter heifer, who is dun. She is bred to a red bull. I'm trying to figure out what color baby will be.....😂. We love you guys! You were one of our Dexter inspirations!
I’m a life long student and Pete is my professor, thank you Pete for teaching me all about Dexter’s
At the beginning when you were talking about the calf and how the Mom didn't accept it I thought oh no another cow heading for the butcher. So glad they both bonded and things worked out. Thanks for the generic cattle color lesson.
You come up with the cutest names for your animals. Your cows look so happy and relaxed thanks for another fantastic video
Great video, Pete! Love the calves!
We do too!
Great video I’m always learning something new from you!
Thank you, for taking the time to share what you know.
I love that you name all your animals!
Great video Mr. Pete!
Awesome!
Your herd so pretty love watching them
I thoroughly enjoyed this video bye you give an explanation about the different breeds.
Thank you
Well I was hoping to catch one of your one-liners. It was a good video but, I really enjoyed the way you do your videos now.
Nice 👍
thanks for the video, it kind of fell into what and i thought about color coats on the diffrent animals, didnt know bout genetics or how they work, all i know is if i breed male [a ] to female [ b ] i would get a broken coat[ spots ] on piglets, or a tri color coat, the calves we always bought from other farms, thank you for the video, be strong, be safe, and be blessed
Hi Russ, that's the common sense explanation! It's when you breed two black animals and you get a red one that you get a real surprise.
@@JustaFewAcresFarm dna transfer is so freaking random.
The chances of having a black cow if both parents have recessive genes is 3:4, not 2:3. You can look up Punnett square and check the diagram for a monohybrid cross. (The dun mutation is a separate recessive gene.)
I’ve been looking for some dexter calves around here (Indiana Illinois line ) haven’t found any yet I breed goats and pigs and usually buy bottle calves or young calves and feed to butcher I would love to try some dexter to try some of that yellow fat meat
Hello! Maybe in the next video you may present how you remove the calfs horns
Great timing! Tuesday's video will show how we dehorn & castrate.
Enjoy the well-deserved “Red Bull” after that explanation :-)
Nice grain bin in the background. Yours?
Noo. Soybean farmer next door.
You almost got tongue twisted there Pete with the "G's"
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Would you consider doing a video on helping the a green horn like myself understand some terms on Dexter? (Explain) I was looking on the American Dexter association website. Reading up on all the information on dexters. When I looked up dexters for sale part of the site. I came across terms I am not familiar with or understand. For example, Chondrodysplasia - Non Carrier PHA status - Non Carrier and many other terms. What should we know about dexters before we buy a dexter? Thanks
I think that's a great video idea; I'll put that in the hopper. There's a lot of genetic stuff that impacts Dexters. Chondrodysplasia is dwarfism and PHA is a pulmonary hypoplasia; a genetic condition that results in underdevelopment of the lungs. Both are recessive traits so you need both Mom & Dad to be carriers for a problem to develop.
There is a group on Facebook called Dexter Cattle Enthusiasts. You can join the group and everyone there is friendly and willing to help answer questions. :)
Actually I like the Red or Dun. Any of them are nice.
I agree!
Excuse rhe ignorance, what is the color dun?
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When you stop learning you start dying!
The advice from one climate change “expert”, I saw recently, was too stop frequent flying, stop driving cars and to stop eating beef immediately to avoid a global catastrophe in 2030. Is that even possible?
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Joel Salato
In and Gabe Brown have explained, Gabe to Congress, that Beef are
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