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Raising Quality Registered Irish Dexter Cattle
 
 
 
 
Irish Dexter : The perfect cow for small acreage farms
 
The Irish Dexter Cattle are a rare breed raised for both beef and milk. They are small , making them easy on pastures, hardy, low maintenance, and having good temperments they are gentle and easy to handle. Known for being easy calvers they generally need no assistance calving. Dexters can have horns or be polled and can be black , red, or dun in color. Because Dexters are good foragers they economically turn grass and marginal scrubland into lean good quality beef and rich milk . With all their good qualities they have been growing in popularity as an old fashioned family cow.
  
 
We are a small  family farm located east of Arlington next to the foot hills of the Mt. Baker 
 Snoqualmie National  Forest.  Here at Heather Meadows Dexter Farm we strive to farm 
using sustainable methods in harmony with our enviornment. Our Dexters are raised  all
natural in pastures with no hormones, antibiotics, chemical pesticides, or herbicides, believing
 pastured, and grass fed they are truly healthier and happier. We handle our Dexters from birth
with care, haulter training and working with them for breeding and show. You can see the
gentleness and good temperment of Dexters as you walk among them out in the pasture, watching
them eagerly come up to you wanting brushed and petting. We milk a couple of our cows enjoying
 the rich milk making creamy butter and good tasting cheese. Our grass fed and finished Dexter is
lean, tender, providing our customers with wholesome and great tasting beef.
 We grow 3 different varieties of blueberries and apples, as well as other fruits such as peaches, pears,
cherries, and plums. From our garden we harvest vegetables grown naturally fresh picked in season 
using our own composted manure for fertilizer.     
                                                                                                                           

              Thistle has had our first calf of 2013. He is a beautiful  black bull calf.

  Thistle's heifer Sheenagh from 2 years ago is next to have her calf and Clover will calve in June. We had My Mother and a friend with his grandchildern come over the Saturday before Easter this year. Penny, one of our rabbits had her babies March 7th and with them just getting out of the nest to run around, it was a perfect day to have them over. With lots of sun and a warm day we had a picnic and then on to the events. 
We played with all of them several times during the day. They are now well use to being handled.
On to the best part of the day, riding Coco! Jordie was so excited she had to be first. Don was a little skeptical Coco was this gentle, but as soon as I led him out of the pen and around to the front he was won over. By the time we finished our first ride around the farm Jordie wanted to ride again.
 
                                              
Not to be out done by his sister Ben was next.
When we finished and Ben got off Jordie was in a flash back
on Coco wanting another ride. She is fearless. Coco was so
good letting the kids ride.
 
                                                                                                                                              
Next came the tractor rides. Of course Jordie was first.
She was very determined to steer that tractor just exactly
where she wanted it to go.
 

                                                                                                                  
Ben was just as determined. We had a lot of fun. With the knowledge that calves were coming soon they would not leave until Grandpa Don promised they could come back to see the new calves. It is always fun to have friends come to visit the farm.
 
Check back with us again as I will be adding new pictures as new calves are born.
 
 
 
 
 

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