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Welcome! Wish I had some advice for you as we want Dexters at some point ourselves!

When I bottle raised a steer my dh wouldn't allow me to go anywhere near him unless I carried a club...the cow not my dh :lau

I am sure it is the rule everywhere? But here our neighbor has a dairy, which we know his standards for milking. He trades us milk for eggs, a great deal!

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Welcome!! I am jealous as I would love to have some Irish Dexters!!

Welcome, I think you will be surprised at how many folks on here either own or have an abundance of know=how on cows. LOL

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Most generally, coyotes won't bother them at this time of year. The food chain is plentiful for the coyotes now. Come winter might be a different story. If your cattle are very protective you are probably ok. I agree though to put either a Great Pyr in there or llama or donkey, just...

great looking cattle!

You are so right, my dh thought he had banded him but turned out he only banded one side so.................... Heed the warnings for everyone's sake.

I bottle fed a Holstein years ago, dh told me to not go into the pasture with him anymore when he got big. Dh told me to carry a heavy stick when I had to go around the steer as when they get older they no longer are the sweet babies we remember!!

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Hi Jilly, isn't this neat? What kind of cows do you think you will get? I think we will just start with something for beef in the freezer but eventually want Irish Dexters.

Nifty, this is soooo great! Although we don't have any cattle as yet, we are up to pigs. :P I thought this was a great idea when it came up during the April Fool day joke, I had no idea you implemented the idea. Wonderful!! I will want to learn as much as I can now. Had a calf several years...