Welcome to Moosters Meadows - home of Irish Dexter Cattle! We strive to breed a truly dual purpose Dexter, providing both excellent beef and milk. All of our Dexters are purebred and registered with the American Dexter Cattle Association (ADCA). We'll be blogging about what goes on here on our little ranch in Wyoming and life with Dexters. Feel free to visit our website as well.







Thursday, July 5, 2012

A Star is Born

That's our girl Bessie in the top photo.  She's getting dry after her bath and tail trim.  Son Raisin is getting his very first bath ever! and he actually seemed to enjoy it.  No fighting, no kicking - what a boy!  Once they were clean and shiny representatives of the Dexter breed, they got a short ride to Lusk, where Bessie will have a walk on role in The Legend of Rawhide  She'll be playing the part of the milk cow!  A Star is Born. 


And yay!  one of my favorite days of the year.... The arrival of the first load of hay.  These bales are really nice hay, but are 1800 pounds.  Given the drought and the price of hay, we decided we'd better take what we can get this year - size wise.  Our little tractor doesn't care much for them, but with some ingenuity (and a battering ram, more or less) Chris was able to push the bales to the ground, then pick them up with the borrowed forklift.  Takes a bit longer, but it gets done.  The driver was very patient while we got off to a slow start.  A little practice and the remaining bales were soon put away PDQ.

Waiting to see the thunderstorms that we were told to "watch" for....  hope they get here because it means rain! 



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