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Post by littlecowfl on Sept 3, 2013 8:08:33 GMT -5
Well, I had great leads on several different bulls in Florida (thank you to the folks that contacted me and helped me figure out some good candidates) that may have carried the requisite traits, but none of them have been collected so it led to more dead ends.
No response from the AI tech. My only option now is to go to the company he works for and hope for some sort of resolution, or, at least, that I get the remaining straws returned to me.
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Post by littlecowfl on Sept 25, 2013 9:57:15 GMT -5
MYSTERY SOLVED! Anne Holt gets the credit. She suggested the sire was Shome Mark and the results confirm he's qualified. Thank you all. Finally, poor little Grainne has a daddy.
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Post by marion on Sept 25, 2013 12:34:32 GMT -5
Woohoooooo!!! That's wonderful news!!! ..marion
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Post by littlecowfl on Sept 25, 2013 14:39:02 GMT -5
Thank you!
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Post by carragheendexters on Sept 25, 2013 21:42:47 GMT -5
Fantastic news. She certainly looked all Dexter, lucky you persevered and didn't sell her off as a crossbred. HMMMM!! Now how did those straws get mixed up? Your AI tech needs to do some explaining.
regards Louise
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Post by littlecowfl on Sept 26, 2013 5:02:24 GMT -5
Exatly, Louise. Except, he won't return phone calls. He works for a national company though, and I will be contacting them to try to get my remaining straws as well as report the mix up. Someone else is out one straw and they might not even know it.
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Post by legendrockranch on Sept 26, 2013 10:56:16 GMT -5
So glad to hear you were able to get this figured out.
Barb
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Post by littlecowfl on Sept 26, 2013 11:09:58 GMT -5
Thank you!
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Post by littlecowfl on Sept 27, 2013 9:28:36 GMT -5
Thanks, Gene! It's nice to get her registered finally.
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Post by laughingllama75 on Oct 27, 2013 6:51:07 GMT -5
Wow. Just read this whole saga......so glad you were able to figure it all out! Are you out of $$ for all the different testing/switching labs you had to do? I would pursue that too, with the AI company. What a mess. So glad it is cleared up, and you STILL have a reg. dexter after all this.
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Post by littlecowfl on Oct 28, 2013 17:16:04 GMT -5
Thanks, LL! Grainne gets to go to a new home soon as a bred, registered heifer. If her mama had been bred to the right AI bull, we'd might have kept her.
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Post by mydexters on Jul 12, 2016 12:18:39 GMT -5
I believe that the dun color maybe unique in the Dexter because it was most likely derived from the Suffolk Dun an extinct breed of Cattle which was also used in developing the red pole breed but as far as iknow that breed is now only red in color.
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Post by mydexters on Jul 12, 2016 12:19:50 GMT -5
I believe that the dun color maybe unique in the Dexter because it was most likely derived from the Suffolk Dun an extinct breed of Cattle which was also used in developing the red pole breed but as far as iknow that breed is now only red in color.
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Post by mydexters on Jul 12, 2016 12:20:57 GMT -5
I had a rather long and enjoyable talk with a man who claims to have introduced notch ears to Dexters in the US. He bought a cow, already bred, from a Canadian. the cow had a bull calf that he registered as if he was the breeder. That bull calf had ears that were notched so badly it looked like he had 4 ears. He used the bull for breeding until he noticed that all of his offspring showed the same notch ears, then he sold it. He worked for years to eliminate notch ears from his herd, but still, to this day, will occasionally have a notch eared calf. The person who bought the bull was supposed to have eaten him, but didn't. The bull was sold to another person who had him collected for AI. Notch ears spread across the land. She sold out and got completely out of Dexters. If you search hard, you can still find straws of that bull available for AI. There is no mention of notch ears in his ads. Y'all be careful out there. All is not as it seems. Gene, what is the point of this post? It seems that using the guise of a story, you are somehow attempting to attach the notch-ear trait to Canadian animals and to warn people off in some way. Patti has posted in the past about the cow that was an early import into the US, who was the original source of notch-ear in America. I had a bought in heifer a few years ago who had a small ear notch (I knew she had the notch but she was a quality animal in every way), and when I read Patti's post and checked pedigree, sure enough it went back to that original (US) import cow.
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Post by mydexters on Jul 12, 2016 12:21:21 GMT -5
I was told that crop-ear was from being nibbled by a leprechaun or kissed by a faerie. Edit: Ian it doesn't require two parents to produce a crop-ear calf, only one
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