Overlook Valley Homestead.....The Dexter breed itself is not this small. These are mini- dexter or an even smaller version of Dexter. They have been selected from Dexter with an emphasis on the further reduced size.

@@fionajane56I’ve seen smaller. There’s regular long legged dexters and short legged dexters. I’ve mostly seen the shorter ones.

Kelly That would be an AWESOME VIDEO! Thank u! We’re looking to purchase them too

I have nubians now and just started with them this spring. I've been wondering how they taste. Is it a gamey/greasy like sheep?

Tammi Palmer No it’s not gamey tasting at all and goat meat is a lean meat. Not fatty. The secret to goat. Is cook it low and slow. I prefer goat to beef. And the cheese is awesome

@@luxuriouslypoor6885 Thanks! I will try it when we get the chance.

@@TammiP2182 When I first started out with goats, I got the beautiful Nubians. They were supposed to be PEOPLE FRIENDLY, meaning they had been acclimated to being around humans, touched and would not be skiddish, etc. The female doe was supposed to be PREGNANT, as well. I did not know the people I got them from but they seemed to be nice and honest. They delivered them when I was not home and my son was here to help get them into their new goat pen. I had the worst experience EVER with these goats as they were NOT people friendly, they did NOT adhere to commands and were the most destructive goats I had ever had. Also, the female doe was NOT PREGNANT but had given birth as she was full of milk. Every single day I was chasing goats to put them back in their pen as they took their horns and shredded the fencing of the pen. CONSTANT repairs on an almost daily basis. A bobcat got the female one early morning (I had been seeing it early mornings when I would be feeding up). A friend knowledable of animal health care (she ran a RESCUE/REHAB for animals) came and checked out Maggie and the bobcat claws had punctured the lining of the stomach area so every time she would breathe her intestines would come out the hole internally and she would bloat up really huge. Since I did not have the money to afford Vet intervention and surgery AND knowing infection had more than likely started internally the advice given was to put her down. It would have been an expensive surgery/aftercare with no guarantee she would even survive. We put her down and (excuse the blunt wording) skinned her out like a deer and processed her to eat. That had to have been the best meat I had ever eaten but then again, I am very tookie with the way I process ANY animal for consumption. I always bleed them out as much as possible when they are hanging for skinning then when the meat is put in a cooler of ice, I let the meat soak in the ice for 3-5 days leaving the drain plug open to empty the bloody water into a 5 gallon bucket as the ice melts. I keep ice on the meat at all times. I do the same with deer and any other wild game I process. I have always theorized the WILD GAMEY TASTE is in the blood so I drain it as much as I can before I actually process it. DO NOT LET THE MEAT SIT IN JUST ICE WATER as the meat will absorb the water and make it too WET when trying to process/grind etc. My meat has no gamey taste, not even my deer and no one knows the difference when they taste my (example) deer burger (85% meat-15% beef fat/trimmings ratio that gives you more of a ground chuck instead of the fatty ground beef-I am grease/fat sensitive). Anyway, I continued to have issues with the ESCAPE artists and their destructive behavior so I sold the Nubians to some people that raised Nubians and had a pasture full so they didn't mind if they weren't people friendly. I then tried the cute little Nigerian Pygmies. They were adorable, friendly and loved human contact. The female gave birth to twin girls and all was great until the Arctic Vortex of Jan 2014 hit and there was absolutely no green vegetation for them to forage in their fenced area. They began to escape and I was back to the dreaded chasing goats every morning and repairing fencing. The morning I went outside to feed up and found ALL 7 goats on my car as if it were a MOUNTAIN for them to climb, was the straw that broke the camels back with me. The billy was butting my car with his horns (which did cause damage) as well as their hooves scratching my car horribly. I sold these goats and said NEVER AGAIN would I have them here in the backwoods with constant predators and them escaping. I am a disabled Sr female so didn't have the means nor capability to fence in more acreage for them to forage so I had no alternative but to get rid of them. They were excellent mothers, produced enough milk for me as well as to make cheese (THE BEST EVER!!) but were not for me since I had limitations to installing more fencing, etc. I have had goat meat at many BBQ's that had been cooked in the ground, Grilled, Smoked and what I had processed and it was EXCELLENT, I just could not do the work every single day to keep them contained with all the coyotes, bobcats and other predators here in the backwoods. I would highly recommend them to younger, healthy people and KNOW WHO YOU ARE DEALING WITH when purchasing goats as I was scammed with the Nubians and some people just don't give a rip when they want to sell something. Sorry for the lengthy reply but wanted you & others to know of some of the issues I had with goats plus to let you know the meat is DELICIOUS!

I have they are friends of ours.

@@DeepSouthHomestead That's great!

AWesome send an email to me.

She was a year old when we got her already had horns.

J Jo dehorning at this stage and size of horn growth is really hard on the animal. Dehorning as a small calf is optimum although the best is actually to breed ‘polled’ cattle. [Polled is a natural mutation that means they are born without horns.]£

You need a head squeezer and I don't have one.

2 cows can stand side by side in each stall with extra room. They all sleep in there with room to spare.

Videos on her calf and on the milking stanchion already up.

The zapper does help with flies. Dolly was a year old when we got her. I probably will just wait and see if her calf even has horns.

That last shot of Dolly, wow she has an elegance about her. You have put alot of thought into your barn stales. Great job.

She kinda looks like those New Mexico head hunters! Just smaller! In my younger years those head hunters would keep your head on a swivel, they would try to get to you. Those range steers had no hands put on them and we're kinda wild at times. Just cows being cows though. Be careful, just takes once!!!

Yes we can now put 2 cows per acre.

Ours isn't bad but he is a bull and I never trust one completely.

They carry 9 months and yes there is mini jerseys.

Alfafa is very expensive here. It doesn't grow in our hot climate has to be shipped in.

Roundhouse American made

Think he said they are about 4ft tall, the cows.

I'm 6 ft 3 inches they are around 49 inches.

Some people who have a milk intolerance do better with cows that are A2/A2. Now that genetic testing is easier and less expensive, more farmers are able to test for it.

Only the male will be raised for meat.Females will go back to the herd.

Typically miniature cows are bred by taking the runts if you will of a cow breed and breeding them with other small sized bulls, breeders will keep breeding down the size till they get cows/bulls that meet the size requirements necessary to call it a mini cow. You do have to take care to breed a cow to a bull that is a bit smaller than the cow to make it easier for the cow to calf. Milking can become an issue with some mini jersey cows because their "udders" can hang so low as to drag along the ground which make milking/feeding calves near impossible and causing Mastitis. The good thing is that low hanging udders is typically genetic so with careful breeding practices this can be avoided to some degree This condition is also due to the median suspensory ligament becoming weaker . There is one true miniature cow called a miniature Zebu that is adorable. I've been studying up on the subject of raising mini cattle for a few years in preparation for my own farm. Hope this helps

They are an old breed from Ireland that was almost lost. They date back to the early 1800s.

There meat has great marbeling and taste really good.

No being mean bout your cattle I sell calves . in TX dexters not worth much at the sale barn

These run around 800 to 1200 dollars each.

@@DeepSouthHomestead wow ya can fit them at the same here for round 3_5 hundred. One of my costumers bought a brand cow for 250.

Bred cow I hate auto correct. Like what y'all doin

Jb Travis Are you near Corsicana? I would love to find a good bred Dexter cow.