New Home for our House Cows

March 7, 2010

Over the past year our house cows have had several homes and we have milked our girls in several different places–all out in the elements. With the recent addition of a single milking machine and two more Milking cows we knew it was time for some shelter. The timing could not have been better for [...]

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Primex June 17-19th 2010 Casino

February 21, 2010

Four Girl Dexter Stud has been contacted by the Dexter Cattle Association to see if we would be interested in showing some of our cattle at this year’s Primex. Primex is held annually at Casino, in the Northern Rivers of New South Wales and is considered as one of Australia’s leading country centres. The town [...]

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Dexter Feature at the 2010 Tenterfield Show

February 12, 2010

Four Girl Dexter Stud hit the road and made the big climb up to the Tenterfield table lands for their annual show. We were loaded up with plenty of gear for the 3 day show and brought along our Show Girls (Azalia and Whisketa) with hopes of bringing home a ribbon of any colour as [...]

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Our Disappearing Heritage

February 12, 2010

Here is an excerpt from a great article in The Permacultivator – Journal of Cool Climate Permaculture written by Jill Cockram who alerts us to the problems of shrinking biodiversity and how to help. Larger Livestock Minority Breeds Rare and minority breeds of farm livestock and the value in preserving them where possible on small [...]

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Dexter Cow with Calf wanted

January 21, 2010

With our first milking girl Condamine coming to her anniversary of milking and now in calf we will be relying on our Milking Cross to keep us in Dairy for the next few months. After that though we will be without a Dexter to milk and provide us (and our friends) with milk, cream, butter, [...]

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Buffalo Fly Tags-21 January 2010

January 21, 2010

We started the process of tagging the cows yesterday. Got through our first pack of 10 pairs of tags and seem to have misplaced our second box. Off to get some more today so we can finish the job. Amazing what a difference a pair of purple floppy ear rings makes–bye bye you dirty Buffalo [...]

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Cows in Calf-Jan 14, 2010

January 21, 2010

We had our local vet Neil Farquay from Mullum Vetcome and dehorn and castrate last week. One thing we have learned is that its far better to burn a cows horns off young then to have them surgically removed.

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Merry Christmas

December 28, 2009
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2nd Place at Bangalow Show

November 29, 2009

We had hoped to enter the show ring in Bangalow but just did not have the energy after the Mullumbimby Show. This however did not stop Alison from entering some Dexter by products. With all the yummy milk we are pulling by hand from our girls each morning Alison has been experimenting with making butter, [...]

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Mullumbimby Show Ribbon Video

November 19, 2009

What a proud moment it was at our first show when we took 1st, 2nd and 3rd place. A clean sweep–we were best in class and it probably did help that we were the only one in our class.

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