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| I raise them.....and have for over a decade now having previously had dairy breeds at a different place........Dexters are a bad word on here, but for what we do with them I like them. I tried the grass only nonsense for acouple, was like eating venison. I have settled on good hay, and ground ear corn with my mineral in it, using old fashioned buckets and a feed scoop to portion out to each group. All of mine normally leave here hanging as my butcher is mobile and comes to us, and takes the halves back to his shop to cut. He works construction in the summer and does that all winter. Most of the time I got them for 20 to 24 months, depending on when they calve. Usually hang around 500 to 525 most of the time. Which unlike if I had bigger breeds, these don't need split up and buyer gets the whole thing and they decide how and what they want, which makes it nice and nobody can complain because they got everything. I went with Dexters at the time because I was by myself, with an older facility with nothing really right in it to work cattle, so the smaller size was perfect, and my young kids at the time weren't scared of them, and the stock I bought was really liked people. Which was a good thing as I am closed in pretty well with neighbors where I am and neighbors aren't in fear because the "Pet cows" next door are friendly so the complaints about things go to zero. While they wouldn't be right for most on here, but for my own use, and selling to a few others, and to give my kids and nephews experience with cattle and not have to worry about them, they were just the answer.
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Dexter cattle ?
