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Wagra Dexter Cattle

Locality: Bendoc, Victoria, Australia

Phone: +61 2 6458 1453

Address: C/- Post Office 3888 Bendoc, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.wagra-dexter.com.au

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25.01.2022 Their own private beaches, not good news.

24.01.2022 Hay Xmas 2018, enough to get us through another winter when added to what we have left over from last year. Not fantastic hay due to storms delaying the cut, but plenty good enough to alleviate panic. Thanks as always to Warren, Joan & David Bruce, our trusty hay contractors, from all at Wagra Dexters.

24.01.2022 As has become usual, dozens of vehicles came into Bendoc, then out of Bendoc again in both directions after morning briefing at the DELWP depot. A veritable Bourke st. out here when they change shift. I guess they were all either out on the fire line or sound asleep by the time we got around to taking a few shots of Base Camp in Delegate this morning.

20.01.2022 Following an enquiry for a "beef" bull, I looked up this photo that was taken seven years ago. These two 15 month old steers by the same sire were then fed up on grass and chaff with a cupful of sweet rolled grain to stimulate their appetites. They began feed with the longer legged steer weighing 4kg heavier, both made another 44kg each weight gain in 44 days. The longer legged, leaner looking steer dressed out with better meat/hook and meat/hoof ratios, plus better marbling, tenderness and flavour. Edited to say both non-chondro.

20.01.2022 Water and feed. More precious than gold!

20.01.2022 Interesting to note that the very first notice sent from the service provider on behalf of the new DCAI Council is misleading by implication.

18.01.2022 Dear Dexter Folk, if you haven't yet shared a Zoom meeting with family and/or friends, do it soon, and make it a habit until we can all safely hug. Friday drinks night / face-2-face conference call. Good fun!

17.01.2022 This is Waratah daring Tess.

17.01.2022 It was such an honour to be awarded Life Membership at the Dexter Cattle Australia Inc. AGM last weekend. That's what happens to obsessives. Plus it was great to catch up with old friends I only ever see once a year. .

16.01.2022 When I am out with the cattle doing what we love to do, talking to calves and scratching their mums, or scratching bulls, I forget all about wanting to take photos! So here is a screenshot from our website.

16.01.2022 This is Nala daring Tess, the kelpie. Nala is a great-grand-daughter of Waratah, and I swear this dog-daring attitude is genetic. Nala is a poll, but Waratah certainly was not, especially when it came to dogs!

15.01.2022 This gorgeous skinny little girl just weaned a big fat calf two weeks ago.

15.01.2022 The next Dexter Promotion Group of South East NSW (DCAI) meeting for 2019 is the AGM to be held on the 7th of July at Murrah Moo Dexter Stud, Quaama. SE Members and interested others, please come along and enjoy like-minded company. The agenda is lunch at 12pm (BYO), followed by the AGM at 12.30pm after which will be a General meeting. Once the meeting is completed we catch up on Dexter news and information, then we check out the cattle. (Need directions? Send Judy an email: [email protected])

14.01.2022 When our lovely district nurse asked yesterday how we were coping with the drought I replied we will be fine so long as we can cut more hay before Christmas. Then I realised she was actually enquiring after our mental health. PLEASE FOLKS, if you wake up gasping in panic, if you cry when you drop a teaspoon, if you walk around and around the farm in circles wondering where to go and what to do next, if you stand in your paddock sobbing, please walk into the surgery, hospital or MPS and ask to speak to somebody. YOU WILL NOT BE THE ONLY ONE.

14.01.2022 Tess will be 11yo tomorrow. This was taken the day before she turned 4yo. The calf is Hideaway Ebony.

13.01.2022 Fran took this video of Kadel with her fourth calf, all heifers. Kaddy is not cool about this labour business. She blames everybody else right from the first twinge, marching about and bashing any other cow in her path. But she never blames her precious babies when they do finally arrive, four hours later.

13.01.2022 My Love Affair with the Dexter, by Beryl Rutherford. $30 plus postage. 0429 436 202 or PM me. Margaret

11.01.2022 Maddy Jamieson your horse needs a scrub and I can't reach!!

10.01.2022 Holding out OK.

10.01.2022 Yesterday our new farrier told us about a person down the track in a predominantly alternative community who has "ugly mongrel looking Dexters that keep having bulldog calves all the time". My heart took a nose-dive and my anger would have raised my blood-pressure for sure. I exploded, "I am a DCAI Councillor and a Life Member so I have to bite my tongue because chondrodysplasia is acceptable in breed regulations, but you will not find one dwarf Dexter on this property." I ...continued to rant, "Why don't these ..... people do their homework? Why don't they buy from reputable registered breeders? Management is so simple, a cheap tail-hair test is all it takes." The farrier asked if chondrodysplasia can cross into other breeds. I told him, "Simple genetics, if one parent is a chondro carrier, its calf out of, or by, any other breed has a 50/50 chance of being a chondro carrier. More rant, "All breeds have potentially lethal mutations, just that in our breed chondrodysplasia carriers present as 'cute', so they can be appealing. Chondro-carriers can be bred safely so long as one parent is scientifically proven to be a non-carrier." So simple, but uninformed Dexter owners continue to do our wonderful unique breed of cattle an unjustified dis-service. Makes me so cranky! Sounds like time for a renewed campaign!! See more

10.01.2022 This was our first herd bull at Wagra Dexters, Bindalee Celtic Chieftain, an imported embryo, born in 1990 and came here to Bendoc from Wagga when he was two years old. The cow behind him is Rodine Tegan, a Grade 2 cow born in 1989 and matriarch of the entire upgraded section of our herd which now includes Dexters to generation 9.

09.01.2022 What is all this wet stuff on my back?

07.01.2022 This is Stormie, born 1988, imp from USA by Bindalee Stud. She is the matriarch of our entire non-upgrade herd.

07.01.2022 Hello to all who live within a few hours radius of us, and who enjoy the convenience and economy of bulk buying, and who appreciate the health benefits of naturally raised produce, we currently have several small sides of excellent yearling Dexter beef in frozen storage. Professionally processed, packaged, and labelled for sale. Phone 0429 436 202 for sizes and prices.

07.01.2022 We took the day off and went for a drive down the coast today. Our country sure needs us all to do a rain dance!!

06.01.2022 And so it begins, the first of 20. Calving is late this year due to our '19/'20 Black Summer fire season.

06.01.2022 A bleak memory, we now have rain, and mud where the dozer pushed mineral earth containment lines around our shed and hay lanes.

06.01.2022 We had a visitor today.

05.01.2022 Missing these boys

03.01.2022 Many thanks to our wonderful neighbours, Aaron & Kelly Voveris, for dropping whatever they were doing and coming straight over to help us roll Jeremy over when we found him cast this morning. He was lying on a very slight slope, with his legs on the higher side and his centre of gravity downhill. Jeremy couldn't get out of his situation on his own but it all went well because he was happy to cooperate, which is always a bonus when handling a horse as big as he is.

03.01.2022 DRY SEASON WORKSHOP Ag. Vic. This coming Thursday 10th May 2018, 10 am to 12.30 pm, BENDOC CFA SHED, morning tea provided. Please register to attend by contacting Snowy River Interstate Landcare Committee Ph 02 64584003. (Same Workshop in Tubbut Hall from 2.30)

03.01.2022 Happy 18th birthdays weekend to these two gorgeous young men. With our Love and Best Wishes to Damon and Jamie. (No apologies for the baby photo.)

03.01.2022 Beautiful and precious. Her name is something beginning with Q!

03.01.2022 I just got an email saying my ability to post on here has been disabled until I send scanned copies of three specific documents. I don't even have one of articles. I agree with Facebook taking some responsibility but I am not scanning private documents for any social media, and strongly suspect the email is fraudulent.

02.01.2022 I watched an SBS program tonight called "Meat: A Threat To Our Planet." Forty-odd years ago I read a book called "Diet For a Small Planet" by Frances Moore Frappé. If my memory serves me correctly, she called lot-fed cattle "a protein factory in reverse"'. She said something like "it takes 17 kg of grain protein to make 1kg of beef protein". She also said that cattle had the ability to produce protein from cellulose grown on marginal country that was not suited to growing pla...nts that are digestible by humans. I still have the first Earth Garden magazine, and the first Permaculture magazine, and the first Grass Roots magazine that ever hit the bookstore shelves. They spoke to me at the time, back in my alternative hippy life, and they were relevant to what I believed in. In the early years I produced our own chicken, rabbit, and goat meat, and for the past 30 years we have produce our own grass-fed, grass-finished beef. In my opinion, meat grown as close to naturally as possible cannot harm the planet anywhere near like manufactured food, highly-processed in factories, so-called "meat" made from vegetable matter. How can any supposedly intelligent human being think that artificially manufactured "meat" could ever replace naturally humanely produced real meat, the consumption of which enabled the evolution of humanity! See more

02.01.2022 Facebook notifications indicate a good bit of interest in this page so if viewers include any regular customers, this message is for you. Please let us know asap if you need to top up your freezers for winter. Our autumn meatstock is spoken for but winter meatstock can be ready in May if required. Many thanks to our regular customers for your friendship and support. .

02.01.2022 Our winter firewood supply came in today. All 41.6 tonnes of it. Such a great sense of comfort & security. Thanks guys!!

02.01.2022 Fat, happy and furry, tucking into fresh hay, sheltered on the north-east leeward slope, they won't bat an eyelid at the bleak weather coming in behind them. So beautiful!

01.01.2022 These figures are an average taken from 8 grass-fed Wagra steers aged 12 18 months, and are based on a percentage of the final processed weight (consumable yield): Mince 23% Sausage 12% Silverside 9% Brisket 6%... Wing 6% Rump 5.5% Topside Roast 5% Porterhouse/T-bone 5% Bolar Blade 5% Stewing 5% Osso Bucco/Gravy Beef 4.5% Round Steak 4% Scotch Fillet 3.5% Eye Fillet 2.3% Oyster Blade 2.2% Topside Steak 2% Also see: dexter-cattle-sensw.com.au and: wagra-dexter.com.au and: wagra-beef.co.au Facebook has been reminding me to post on this site but I haven't got any recent photos so posting info to fill the void. Cheers, Margaret