Our Start

Our start with Dexters is a likely story, without any glamor and not any glory.
I always had horses, wild ones to tame, they never were hungry and never were lame,
BUT I did not have time, the time that they needed, so the request by my hubby, was tearfully, heeded..,
no horse.., no time.., no time so no horse.., ah, but this was the breeze that changed our due course.

A big empty barn, our pastures were green.., we wanted something different, that we'd never seen.
Cows were our choice, but our big ones were grumpy, and the dairy's old cows looked bony and frumpy..,

so looking through papers one day and what did we see? An ad for some Dexters, we found our Lady Bea.
She started this fever, this insatiable craving.., then she gave us a lesson on Dexters misbehaving!

She was small, round and cute, we just couldn't get mad.., but nobody had trained her, and for this we were sad. We got her a halter and a long, long lead rope.., she taught us to ski through the mud and towards "hope".

She DID come around though, for those that are wondering, but many a times, through the woods we'd go thundering!
Now, one of the largest herds round these here states, we learned from sweat, blood and tears.., and many mistakes.

So now we help others, trying to help them you see - because hooking others on Dexters just fills us with glee.
We say what we know, though we can always learn more.., about these little darlings that we just adore.

And now looking back it is so easy to see, that this love and commitment's a gift from our Bea.

In Loving Memory of a VERY Special Cow

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Lady Bea 1996 - 2002

Bea died of Gangrene Mastitis after we turned her weaned calf (separated 4 months) back in with her and the calf went to suckling. We immediately removed the calf back to the weaning pen and as stoic and hardy as these animals are, Bea showed no sign of even a slight illness until 48 hours before she died. Her only symptom was her slowing down her eating habits. The call was made to the vet and even though he treated her with every treatment he could think of - the suckling of the calf was enough to open her teats up to bacteria. She died in her sleep 2 nights later. We now do not turn calves back in with their dams until the "calf" is bred or breeding age.