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Sorry, that was me I read the date wrong!!

How are you getting on with these? I'm kinda jealous that you guys over there have 'proper' devons ;) the north devons we are left with have gone down the beef route like most other things. They are beautiful creatures though. Just wanted to say that we have 60, don't dehorn and never, ever...

I can only echo what others have said = medieval peasant life was small and tough, that amount of livestock couldn't have been sustained by commoners. Rotation wasn't really thought about as far as we know. Horses were a rich man's thing. Oxen are steers, but in medieval times working cows...

Hi there, I'm in the UK we have about 40 dexters for beef, jerseys for milk and I train all sorts of breeds as oxen. We have milked our dexters, but quickly moved on to jerseys. Dexter milk tasted weak and dull in comparison (although yield was very good), and home dairying was extremely...