A very nice looking bull for sale

[jennyacres]

It isn't often you see a bull this nice looking advertised.  I just happened to be perusing the ADCA website, and this guy caught my eye.  If I, personally, were in the market for a bull right now, he'd make the list of fellas to check out further:  dextercattle.org/ads/2016_dexter_ad_02_16_zh.html

Nice work Susan!

[hoperefuge]

I can agree with that!

He's a very nice looking boy.  And I think seeing him on that page of ad photos makes him look even better!

Kim

[zephyrhillsusan]

Thank you so much, jennyacres and hoperefuge! I really appreciate your input!

[Fran]

He is a good looking boy!! Hope he finds a wonderful home!

[Pinevalleydexters]

I couldn't agree more, Seb will make someone a nice herd sire!

[zephyrhillsusan]

We've received a deposit on him.

[legendrockranch]

That's good news Susan, congrats!

[cathylee]

Yes, congratulations, Susan.  I know you will miss him.

And I apologize as this doesn't belong here but didn't want to make a new topic out of it.  I wandered over to the link above and looked at a few more of the listed bulls and found Upton. Then I wandered over to his pedigree wondering if he was homo polled.

dextercattle.org/pedigreedb/ponyweb.cgi?horse=036115&RegNumber=036115&Page=1&Sort=0

[zephyrhillsusan]

Hmm, cathylee , you have sharp eyes!   I think there must be a mistake there? Because surely if a polled bull had been born from two horned parents, we would have heard about it!

I do know that the software can (or at least could, in the past) make mistakes, totally apart from any human error. It originally recorded our herd sire as a cow.     It was kind of funny, him having a "sex change operation," but also disappointing--having shipped him all the way from WA to GA because he was a bull!   Of course we got it corrected when we noticed it, and he's now sired three calves with one on the way, so we know the sex change was successful.   At the time, Jill explained that the software has its "default" settings, one of which is "cow."  If you have a bull, she has to change it, but sometimes it will revert before she saves the work. Or something like that--it's been several years, so I may not be giving exactly the correct explanation.  I know it's the same way with my Family Tree Maker program, when you record a child, it always makes it the default sex, and you have to change it if it's the opposite sex.  I wonder if it works the same way with horned and polled?

One other explanation that occurs to me is that the sire actually had scurs, but was recorded as horned?  But I'm pretty sure that breeder would have known the difference.

[cathylee]

And now that I have investigated a bit more I see that his sire Mr. Rip is listed as polled on the PDCA registry. Not nearly as much fun!

Genealogy can be a terribly tedious endeavor. Too bad it's so addictive. And I have been quite the enabler. I sent a few relatives to Geni and some of my nieces and nephews are now similarly afflicted.

[kansasdexters]

He is not actually registered in the ADCA, he is shown in the ADCA with his PDCA registration number. Unfortunately, some of the default entries for various fields in a registration can insert erroneous information. Here is a link to his PDCA registration, showing that he is registered as Polled: www.pdca-pedigree.org/ainfo.php?aid=202746