zephyrhillsusan
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Caught Dexteritis in Dec. 2009. Member of this forum since Oct. 2013.
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Post by zephyrhillsusan on Feb 17, 2014 21:44:45 GMT -5
Thanks so much for filling in the holes! Very interesting! I was hoping you would remember.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2014 23:09:53 GMT -5
Hmmm, let's see. We started with horses. Then the girls/children grew up, married, and started having babies. I couldn't ride three horses, so we traded one of my mares to my farrier for a Hereford/Galloway cross, she was bred to a mini long horn and had a heifer calf on our farm. I still had two horses on the farm with the cows. My horses would chase the cows, the heifer calf learned to run and no one but me could get close to her. So I traded my horses to my farrier, that's where they came from to begin with. She is quite the trader. Anyways we got a Dexter cross bull from her for the pony and horse. Bred my cow and her now two year old calf to him. I wanted more cattle and was looking for a couple of heifers, we visited a Galloway farm near by. They didn't have any heifers to sell. I figured Galloways are a hardy breed for our northern climate. Then we heard about a Dexter farmer near Bayfield, 20 minutes from us. He had a Dexter heifer calf for sale, was asking $800 could be registered but needed to genotype the sire. Well, you ask where was the sire? The farmer proceeded to call his herd up from the far, wooded, untended terrain pasture. He called the bull Da da, and when this horned, wild bull came with his three cows in tow from the far valley below, we were in awe. This farmer had a one hot wire fence. Low to the ground. Dad da, didn't like that we had his heifer calf on a rope, started snorting and pawing the ground!! True story. I knew that no one was going to pull tail hairs on this bad boy. At least I wouldn't even attempt it. Needless to say we didn't buy the heifer calf:) so I found two Registered Dexter heifers on craigslist from a super nice farmer, with a calm Dexter bull:) and added them to our small herd. We found that we fell in love with the girls, liked how easy they were on pasture, hay, easy calving, good mothers. We decided to change our herd over to Registered Dexters, sold the crossbred cattle to another fello who was just starting into beef, and liked the crossbred so we had. So that's my story, a bit abbreviated.
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