Moooo ving to cromwellfarms.com

by greg on August 15, 2010

Thanks for visiting Four Girl Dexter Stud’s website. We are going to be closing the gate on this little website soon so we can have more time farming and less time doing website updates. Don’t worry though you can still keep up with our Dexter Cattle adventures at cromwellfarms.com/four-girl-dexter-stud

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Dexters a big hit at Primex

by greg on June 17, 2010

Primex is getting ready to kick it into high gear over the next two days. The North Coast Dexter Breeders association has done a great job at presenting our Dexter breed to the thousands of attendees at Primex. Our little area in the big big paddock has been setup and we have 5 dexters in two yards for people to check out and there are Dexter steaks and sausages on serve.

Farm Hand Fez taking in the Dexter Bulletin

Delicious Dexter Steaks

Whiskita loving being on display

Barcoo Beef's Daniel Hill checking out the Dexters

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Another Milking Machine

June 12, 2010

Four Dexter Stud is getting ready to ramp up its milk production in a few months when our girls start dropping calves. Here is a picture of our ‘new’ well it’s actually pretty old milking machine. Right now our new big little milker is just outside Sydney and Pa (also known to our girls as [...]

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Dexter Cheese Day

June 10, 2010

How lucky are we to have a cheese maker in the family. Alison took  a cheese course in Bangalow last year and has become hooked on all things cheese. Everyday Alison works away on something. Most days its butter but every few weeks she gets a whole day in the kitchen with her mate Nicky. [...]

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Digging into Dexter Beef

June 10, 2010

Finally, after over a year of waiting, we got to taste our own Dexter Beef. We were prepared for the meat to be lean as our butcher Pat from Clunes said our grass fed steers did not have allot of fat on them. We were pleasantly surprised though when we cooked up our first T-Bone [...]

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Getting primed for Primex in Casino

June 10, 2010

In less then week (June 17-19) we will be taking a pair of our Dexter cattle to show them off at Primex. Primex is a 3 day Exhibition held annually in June, starting the first Thursday following the Queen’s Birthday long weekend and concluding on the Saturday. Primex is held annually at Casino, in the [...]

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Acreage-Country Living at its Best – Dexter Article

June 10, 2010

Below is an extract from a feature on Dexter Cattle in a great US Magazine called Acreage. Very comprehensive history of the Dexter Breed–makes for a good read. Enjoy- 4GS. The existence of Dexters was first reported in Ireland in 1776. Their written history prior to then is non-existent. However it is clear from documents [...]

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Beefing up our Dexter Stud

April 30, 2010

Things have been busier then usual on the Cromwell Farm on Sheaffes Road the last couple of months: boundary fencing, pasture improvement, cattle grids and building a milking bales are some of the highlights. During all this we have managed to sell our first cows, well a Heifer and Steer to be specific. We are [...]

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Tail End of Milking Training Video

March 10, 2010

One of the challenges of having milking cows is that you need to milk them everyday and most often twice a day. That makes going away a bit of a challenge. If you are lucky like we are you have friends who are enthusiastic about helping you out. When we went away to visit Alison’s [...]

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How Now House Cow

March 10, 2010

The article titled “How Now House Cow” is a wonderful story about a family and their experience raising and milking Dexter Cows for both milk and meat. Don’t miss out on the full story on the Grit website which requires you to click through to 3 different pages. http://www.grit.com/Animals/How-Now-House-Cow.aspx Complements to the author Patrice Lewis who edits [...]

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