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Post by stephanie on Jun 27, 2014 2:54:42 GMT -5
Sire Services have a top livestock photographer coming next month and she will take his photograph, sadly these days there are no longer glossy catalogues but he will be go on their website then.....somehow that doesn't have the same ring to it as a glossy catalogue does it?! Anyway straws are now available, if anyone wants to know anything just let me know, I've had quite a bit of interest and sold some straight away which is just amazing!
Stephanie
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Post by lakeportfarms on Jun 27, 2014 5:16:49 GMT -5
Stephanie, congratulations and I'm sure he'll be a success in many countries. I hope you've had sufficient straws collected so he doesn't have to go away again for such a long time because you've run out!
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Post by carragheendexters on Jun 27, 2014 18:52:49 GMT -5
Thanks Stephanie for allowing the semen to go world wide, he will be a great asset to many country's Dexter gene pools. I did not know Beryl Rutherford at all, but I am sure she would be proud and pleased with what you are doing.
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Post by stephanie on Aug 8, 2014 4:34:40 GMT -5
Hedgehog has had his "official" photo taken down in Devon at Sire Services and he is looking good....they are obviously feeding him well!!!
I am really looking forward to getting pics from people in other countries of his calves. All the ones so far have been by natural service and they all look very similar, I hope he will stamp his type even on quite diverse dexters...time will tell, it is very exiting!
Stephanie
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Post by stephanie on Aug 8, 2014 7:03:06 GMT -5
Earlier in this thread I was asked his height and they kindly measured him for me at Sire Services, he is 42 inches.
Stephanie
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Post by carragheendexters on Aug 8, 2014 7:47:41 GMT -5
Stunning photo, ready for the show ring. They have fitted him beautifully. I really like his length and depth, and oh so short on the leg. He is just stunning. Look, he has 'happy lines" on his side, they certainly must have been feeding him well. A lot of bull for 42 inches, and non-chondro to boot.
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Post by ladena on Aug 8, 2014 7:53:43 GMT -5
Wow! He is in tip top condition and looks quite happy. He's probably relieved that they didn't do his tail in a puffball.
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Post by zephyrhillsusan on Aug 8, 2014 11:48:20 GMT -5
Gorgeous photo! He looks great!
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Post by stephanie on Oct 6, 2015 13:27:10 GMT -5
I thought it was time for an update. There have been as far as I know - two Hedgehog 4th calves born by AI so far one on the Isle of Bute in Scotland and the other in Australia. At the moment his straws cannot go to either USA or Canada which is very annoying as I have so many requests for straws with you. So I am hoping to get his son Duffryn Bevis passed for USA and Canada instead, he is out of my lovely old dun cow Nutlin Ginger Spice, who had a fabulous body and udder, although he is only just over a year old - I am sending him for collection in about 2 weeks.
Stephanie
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Post by zephyrhillsusan on Oct 6, 2015 14:48:59 GMT -5
Importation rules can be very frustrating, can't they, stephanie? Do you have to get the bull passed before collection, is that the problem?
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Post by stephanie on Oct 7, 2015 4:45:42 GMT -5
Unfortunately the rules to US and Canada are very tight and HH4 failed a test annoying as he passed on arrival and failed when leaving quarantine so it happened there. This isn't something that passes in semen I hasten to add but we have to have rules and I quite understand.
Stephanie
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Post by zephyrhillsusan on Oct 7, 2015 8:26:11 GMT -5
I had to leave a wonderful horse behind in France because of tight rules here--exactly that problem, that he might pass for import, but fail for leaving quarantine.
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Post by stephanie on Oct 7, 2015 9:31:24 GMT -5
OH no ...what sort of wonderful was the horse?
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Post by zephyrhillsusan on Oct 8, 2015 15:45:39 GMT -5
stephanie, Tsar was a 16-year old Camargue horse (he looked a lot like the horse being ridden by the man in red), the French equivalent of a Quarter Horse, but smaller (13 hands) and white. He had spent the first 13 years of his life working the black bulls of Camargue, until I got him, and he had two speeds--walk and full-out gallop. We taught him to trot and jump, and he was such a steady, generous horse. He had been ridden in the Camargue version of a Western saddle with a curb bit with a bicycle chain over his nose, but I rode him in an easy snaffle and an English saddle--even bareback. I had him boarded at a riding club for a while, and he was a favorite of everyone. Three years later (2001) we ended up leaving France, and he couldn't come because he was positive for piroplasmosis, which is kind of like equine malaria. It's spread by mosquitos, so the US has strict quarantine rules. Even if we could have treated him and gotten him sero-converted to negative, there was no assurance he wouldn't re-convert to positive by the end of quarantine. If that had happened he would have been put down, so I couldn't risk it. I gave him to a young woman who wanted a companion for her retired TB mare. She just told me earlier this year that he finally died at the ripe old age of 30. After we moved here and got Dexters, I often thought how much Tsar would have loved it, especially since our first cow was a horned black Dexter, just a little smaller than the black bulls. Our hills would have seemed strange to him, but he'd have felt right at home whenever we got flooding in the low parts. I was trying to Google an image of the bicycle chain, and lo and behold, up popped a blog post I had forgotten that I did about Tsar and his pony buddy Vanille and our experience with an animal hoarder--not the one who got Tsar. The internet--the perfect cure for senility! Well, anyway, that was a long answer to your short question.
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Post by stephanie on Oct 9, 2015 1:09:38 GMT -5
Thanks zephyrhillsusan I couldn't resist the question! I am known for bringing rather odd things back from my travels....Herdwick sheep from Cumbria and horses from Ireland are on the list! I have no horses any longer but rode and had my own horses/ponies from the age of 3 to 53. I went for a ride earlier this year but have lost the urge to ride daily, muck out compete etc.
What a shame for you but in the end you found him a lovely home....well done!
Stephanie
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