Learn about the ideal small farm cows: Dexter cattle. MOTHER EARTH NEWS discovered the best small farm cows: Dexter cattle. Pound for pound, no bovine can match the diversity of Dexter cattle ...

Learn all about the Irish Dexter cattle pros and cons to decide if you’d like to bring this dual-purpose breed into your homestead. We first heard about Irish Dexter cattle while watching a ...

HIBBARD • Irish Dexter cattle produce milk that is high in butterfat, and dark, lean meat that can be high in omega 3 when grass fed. Although they can buck, they are quite docile and small in ...

Townson said Dexter cattle are a fairly uncommon breed. He's the only person he knows raising Dexters in the area. But that could soon change. Sally and Warren Coad, North Carolina farmers who ...

Dexter Cattle, a heritage breed, at a farm in Massachusetts. Dexter Cattle, a heritage breed, at a farm in Massachusetts. Kristin Hugo The goal of publishing the paper was to improve the general ...

Good cattle turns into great beef. If we get the soil right, everything else falls into place." North Coast Ranch has 15 Dexter cattle, a smaller breed that gets to a maximum of 1,100 pounds.

It may be the smallest domestic cattle breed in the world but the Dexter is certainly grabbing attention at Balmoral Show. Not only did one breeder enjoy success with a 1,2,3 win in the Dexter cow ...

“My surgeon said if I continued walling I was going to end up paralysed,” says Stuart, whose current 70-head of Dexter cattle are providing him with a new lease of life having recently ...

Dexter cattle breeders will have a unique opportunity to purchase semen from several leading Dexter bulls – including the famous Sarum pair Bullrush and Duster Dale – at Melton Mowbray’s 11 ...

Cattle have returned to a historic site in Kent after a 60-year absence to help restore the lowland grassland. The Dexter cattle have been released at Golden Hill in Harbledown, near Canterbury ...