| Our Herd - Past and Present |
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| My first 4 Dexters arrived late in 2002. We were a textbook “small place” perfect for this breed, with only 10 acres of pasture and not much irrigation water available. I feed a lot of hay, beginning in summer when my grass is gone. Right now we have 10 animals, though 6 adult cows and a bull are my ideal numbers. We calve in fall, which has worked out very well. I prefer black, horned Dexters, with a few duns for variety. While I have both long and short leg, I prefer a small, but proportionate animal. LC Farms Spike, the sire of our 2007 calves, is CD-free; we’ll be testing his offspring to determine their carrier status. |
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| LC Farms Spike |
| 2008 Calves Our move to Texas put quite a crimp in my breeding. Our old sire Spike didn’t move with us, leaving sire duties to the very young Whistle R Ten Fidy, a CD-free son of the gorgeous dun bull Shome Rowan. Spike bred a couple of cows before we left CO, resulting in 2 Texas bull calves. When the rest of the cows were bred by Ten Fidy and will calve, I have no idea, though probably late summer for most of them. Things were pretty disorganized around here right after the move! |