Post by jamshundred on Aug 7, 2016 21:58:19 GMT
This is a DEXTER cow. This is what the leadership of the Dexter breed should be encouraging as the conformation goal. To breed Dexters that look like Dexters. DWARF cattle. There is only one other breed that will stand out among all other cattle in a pasture of many breeds so that you recognize it on sight. ( Highland). The photo is a still of Grinstead Dora 6th taken from the British Pathe reel. There were lots more just like her.
Ignorance is no longer an excuse and greed never was excusable. This breed needs to be reclaimed for the unique and wonderful cattle they were. We are drastically outnumbered by those who knew no better. . . . and it is our responsibility to save this breed from extinction here in the US. If we do not stand up and fight what has happened over the course of several decades now. .. then we are as guilty as those who willingly work to destroy this little breed.
FIFTY inches? ? Do you see a single cow in that video that whose top line would measure at any point FIFTY inches?
If YOU . . . are supporting the leadership in this country that have wreaked havoc on this breed. . . .and you are not actively working to give them the attitude adjustment long overdue. . .. than YOU are supporting their destructive platforms. Simple as that. " Going along to get along" may be furthering your own interests, but it is not supporting the truth and not supporting the Dexter breed. When they are GONE. . . ... . they are GONE. ADCA has been the single most destructive force against Dexters in America. They gave themselves the power to govern this breed and instead they served their own interests and the Dexter breed .. . .. .WILL. . . . . . collapse under the weight of the ignorance and short- sightedness of a leadership which removed ALL rights of the members to control or direct them, removed the mission statement "to protect the purity of Dexter Cattle", repeatedly increased height to give acceptance and validity to oversize animals whose appearance mirrors that of beef breeds. EVERY dollar you give to this leadership permits them to continue the destruction of this breed. Just think on that for a second or two.
There was something else on the British pathe that the ignorant loud mouths who now advocate or have ever advocated the destruction of dwarf cattle should have shoved under their noses as often as possible. I've highlighted it in yellow on the still.