Oh, Man! Don’t get me started on Dexters! I so very badly want one! :) Maybe Dad will buy me one come Spring? He’s rather indulgent of his ‘Farm Gal Daughter’ who he raised on The Mean Streets of Milwaukee and is constantly amazed and perplexed at how much she loves Farm Life, LOL!
Milking twice a day, so I’m told, builds character.
However, we don’t have any kids, and my wife thinks I’m almost too much of a character already, so dairying is out.
After reading the article, I went looking for the date, as it seemed familiar. Seems to me, they also did some articles on Dexters in the 70s/80s, as ‘the ideal homestead cow’.
I notice that the archives are no longer directly accessable online, but instead are now for sale on DVD. Shame. Lots of nagware popups, too.
Wednesday, June 29, 2005
The Amazing Irish Dexters
Mother Earth News - Issue # 62 - March/April 1980
Article and Photo by Randy Kidd
http://pdca-one.blogspot.com/2005_06_01_archive.html
Scroll down; it’s the third article on the page. Unfortunately, the link after the lead in is broken, but the issue information is above to look it up in the saved (you DID save all your issues, didn’t you?) magazine.
FYI, there’s a Yahoo group for Dexters: http://tech.dir.groups.yahoo.com/group/dextercattleonly/?v=1&t=directory&ch=web&pub=groups&sec=dir&slk=6