We’re doing pretty well this year with our preps-we’re working on having 100 chickens (around 30 in various stages now and hatching more), we have a (very) small flock of blackbelly sheep, and the garden is coming up really well. When we finish our root cellar the wife unit will start canning what we’re growing.
So all told I’m feeling pretty good about our preps, but we need a dairy cow. Black bellies wouldn’t be worth the trouble to milk, and I don’t want goats. A dexter cow seems just about perfect for our cream/cheese/milk needs-with three kids under 10 we go through a lot of milk.
So that said does anyone have a lead on where I might acquire a dexter/mini dexter? Anyone here raise them and care to comment on them? Looking to learn as much as I can before jumping in head first.
So all told I’m feeling pretty good about our preps, but we need a dairy cow. Black bellies wouldn’t be worth the trouble to milk, and I don’t want goats. A dexter cow seems just about perfect for our cream/cheese/milk needs-with three kids under 10 we go through a lot of milk.
So that said does anyone have a lead on where I might acquire a dexter/mini dexter? Anyone here raise them and care to comment on them? Looking to learn as much as I can before jumping in head first.