List of "Original Articles" that were on dex-info.net

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Original Articles About Dexters
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The full text of articles, or parts of articles, some of which have not been published before.
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Articles are included because of their historical significance, because they contain important or interesting information, or because they have been written by me. For recently published articles, I have gained permission to reproduce them, or they are brief extracts from a much larger work. Inclusion does not mean that I endorse, agree with or support the views presented in them, unless I have written them.
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1) "Our Land and Our Bodies: Moonlight, Meat and Me" by John Paterson - revised version of an article first published in The Smallfarmer, August 2002 - Modern mechanistic thinking eliminates awe, reverence and humility in how we use the world; animals have value in themselves, yet we eat them; Moonlight Dancer, a Dexter-Jersey bull raised on Waikoha Smallfarm; his slaughter for meat; the costly sacrifice behind meat; “Now he is part of me, though I miss him”.
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2) "When is a Dexter Not a Dexter" by Beverley McCulloch - an article originally published in DCSNZ's Dexter Dispatch - On the history and definition of Kerry and Dexter cattle, particularly in the light of the possibility of eliminating the Dexter's distinctive dwarfism.
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3) "Representation of Dexters on the Internet" by John Paterson - extract from "Representing Rare Breeds on the Internet: The Case of Dexter Cattle", Paper presented to the 22nd New Zealand Geographical Society Conference, July 2003 - 12 themes apparent in how Dexters are represented in text and images on the Internet.
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4) "Preface to the Kerry and Dexter Herd Book, Volume One, 1890", Royal Dublin Society - This Herd Book brought together the animals listed in the first register of Kerry and Dexter cattle published by the Irish "Farmer's Gazette" from January 1887. The Royal Dublin Society acquired the rights to the register and started to publish an annual Kerry and Dexter Herd Book.
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5) "The Dexter in History" by Beverley McCulloch and Michael Trotter - a six-part series of articles originally published in DCSNZ's Dexter Dispatch. A number of early historical writings on Irish cattle are quoted extensively to convey aspects of the early Dexter breed.
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6) "Profiles of Dexter Internet Users" by John Paterson (revised and up-dated, in two Parts) - from "Dexters Online: The Present Situation and Future Potential for Promoting and Marketing Dexters on the Internet", Paper presented to the Second World Dexter Congress held in Australia in October 2002 - Based on e-mail questionnaires, a categorisation is developed of 15 different types of Dexter breeders in terms of their use of the Internet, as consumers or providers of Internet information and services.
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7) "Principles of Website Design", by John Paterson, an extract from "Strong Verbs and Pithy Paragraphs, White Space and Limited Levels: Website Design and Dexter Cattle Association Websites" by John Paterson - Dexter Dispatch: Quarterly Publication of the Dexter Cattle Society NZ, no. 35, February 2002, 25-31 - Guidelines on writing text for a webpage and designing a website; analysis of a Dexter-related website - www.cowichanbayfarm.com - in the light of these guidelines.
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8) "Dexter Bull Entries in the Kerry and Dexter Herd Book, Volume One, 1890" - a transcription of the 26 Dexter bulls entered in this the first Kerry and Dexter Herdbook, published by the Royal Dublin Society.
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9) "Dexter Cow Entries in 1890 Kerry and Dexter Herd Book, Volume One, 1890" - a transcription of the 210 Dexter cows entered in this the first Kerry and Dexter Herdbook, published by the Royal Dublin Society.
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10) "New Zealand's First Dexters" by B. McCulloch and M. Trotter - an account of the discovery that Dexters had come to New Zealand much earlier than first thought - as live imports from the UK in 1904, not as semen imports in the late 1970s. An article originally published in DCSNZ's Dexter Dispatch in 2003.
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11) "Issues in the Future Development of Dexters on the Internet: Breeders' Views" by J. Paterson - from "Dexters Online: The Present Situation and Future Potential for Promoting and Marketing Dexters on the Internet", Paper presented to the Second World Dexter Congress held in Australia in October 2002 - Based on response to an e-mail survey, a number of ways in which the Internet could be more useful to Dexter breeders is outlined. Originally published in the ADCA Bulletin and International Dexter, this version is revised and up-dated.
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12) "Grade One - and the Colour Dun" by B. McCulloch and M. Trotter - an article written in 2005 in the light of the identification of the distinctiveness of the dun gene in Dexters, exploring the implications for the "grading up" of Dexters, especially in New Zealand.
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13) "The Founder Effect: Origins, Characteristics and Future of the New Zealand Dexter Herd" by Tony Cutten and Alex Meades - A paper presented to the Second World Dexter Congress held in Australia in October 2002. The influential role of a small number of Artificial Insemination bulls in the New Zealand Dexter herd is discussed in the context of the concepts of "founder effect" and "genetic drift".
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14) "Smallfarming Landscapes, Real and Imagined" by John Paterson - revised version of an article first published in The Smallfarmer, December 2001. Includes the tale of the arrival of the first Dexter bull at Waikoha Smallfarm, and a survey of children's books about animals and the landscape.
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15) "Kerry and Dexter Cattle" by A.N. Wilson - a ten-page entry, with photos, on these breeds from Volume One "Cattle" of the six volume Live Stock of the Farm, published in London in 1918. Includes much valuable information about the history of Kerrys and Dexters.
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16) "Dexters as Beef Cattle" by A.E. Jones - from a chapter entitled "The Selection and Judging of Cattle" in Volume One "Cattle" of the six volume Live Stock of the Farm, published in London in 1918.
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17) "The Significance of an Achondroplasia-Like Condition Met With in Cattle" by F.A.E. Crew - an article published in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, volume 95, 1923, pages 228-255. Includes now out-dated scientific analysis of the Dexter bulldog calf but provides a reminder of the problem that it posed breeders and the difficulty of identifying its cause. Includes photographic plates of bulldog calves.
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18) "Congenital Defects [in Dexters]" by Lawrence Alderson - an extract from Alderson's book The Chance to Survive: Rare Breeds in a Changing World, published by Cameron & Tayleur, London, 1978. This extract, pages 124-127,discusses the bulldog calf in Dexters as well as gradations in size to be found in the breed, illustrated by photos of Dexters.
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19) "Genetic Vulnerability of the Dexter" by Lawrence Alderson - an extract from Alderson's book The Chance to Survive: Rare Breeds in a Changing World, published by Cameron & Tayleur, London, 1978. This extract, pages 174-178, provides a comparative evaluation of the genetic value and vulnerability of the three Irish cattle breeds, the Kerry, the Irish Moyled, and the Dexter.
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20) Extracts on Dexters by James Wilson - from Wilson's book, The Principles of Stock-Breeding, published by Vinton and Company, Chancery Lane, 1912. Three extracts from a book introducing Mendelian principles of inheritance in livestock. Extract One refers to the bulldog calf, and mentions that the Dexter is probably a cross between Kerry cattle and North Devons; Extracts Two and Three refer to the inheritance of leg length in Dexters, including in the light of Dexter-Shorthorn crosses. Wilson correctly describes short-leggedness as dominant but mistakenly argues that all offspring from long-leg/short-leg will be short-legged.
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21) "The Kerry Breed" by Robert Oliphant Pringle - from Pringle's book, The Livestock of the Farm, published by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1886. Pringle was editor of the Irish Farmers' Gazette" and wrote this book to promote the improvement of animal production. One chapter described the different breeds of cattle and included a section on the Kerry which mentioned the Dexter.
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22) "Dexter" by Valerie Porter - from her book, Practical Rare Breeds: A Modern Approach to the Breeding and Farming of Minority Livestock, published by Pelham Books, London, 1987. This book contains chapters on breed conservation and issues about raising rare or minority livestock. There then follow chapters on different kinds of livestock. Chapter 8 is on cattle, and includes this extract on Dexters.
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23) "History of the Dexter Breed in Canada" by Carol Davidson, 2006 - this article is a revised and up-dated version of an article published in The International Dexter, Issue 1, September 2002, pages 17-19, and which also appeared at one stage on the website of the Canadian Dexter Cattle Association. It covers key aspects of the history of Dexters in Canada from the late 19th century to 2001.
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25) Extracts on Dexters from The Cattle of Britain by Frank Garner, 1944 - this book aimed to provide an account of the development of the cattle industry in Britain, the classes of stock to be found there, and the ways in which they could be managed for milk and neat production. The material on Dexters includes some data on beef and milk production from the 1930s.
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26) "Population Dynamics of the Dexter Breed of Cattle" by G.B Young, 1953 - this article was published in The Journal of Agricultural Science, Volume 43, 1953, pages 369-374. It examines aspects of Dexter breeding based on an examination of information from the herd books of the Dexter Cattle Society (UK) between 1900 and 1948. One important concern of the author is the impact of the lethal bulldog calf gene on the breed. Includes some statistical information from this period and some comparisons with a couple of other cattle breeds.
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