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The
Black and White Truth - Dexter and White Cattle |
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Beef with Old Breeds
Raising
Dexters and British Whites have many advantages. These
breeds of cattle came from less than perfect lands,
including living literally in the wild for many, many
years. These breeds, greatly due to their history; are
more sound cattle. They don’t need the most pristine of
pastures to grow and even thrive. Our cattle breeds are
known to have excellent maternal and paternal instincts. I
have watched over time that our cattle have babysitters
and lookouts. Even our bulls get involved in the
babysitting rotation. Each one is given a day, even though
I don’t know how they remember whose turn it is, to
basically just keep an eye out on the area. |
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are many amazing qualities that these breeds bring to the
table, no pun intended. Now you may be asking yourself,
what does this have to do with natural beef. Simply put,
the bottom dollar.
Having a
breed of cattle that doesn’t need the added attention
and worry in birthing, finding and maintaining the best of
pastures, temperature highs and lows; it just makes sense
even in the checkbook. The list goes on and on.
Natural beef
is getting to be a big name, but the land that is required
to keep and raise natural beef with many commercial breeds
is much greater than these breeds of cattle. Allowing more
animals per pasture is also a great economical plus. |
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Rare Cattle Breeds |
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our cattle has been interesting to say the least. Both
breeds of cattle are rare, thus practically unknown to the
regular farmer or family. Knowing about your breed is
essential to clients. We continue to enjoy the time spent
talking about our girls and boys to anyone that asks.
I have found
that passing up an opportunity to talk about your cattle
can be a loss for you as the breeder, and a loss for the
breed.
I recently
had a gentleman call asking about our buffalo calves,
which had just been sold. I explained to him that keeping
too many bulls on our farm wasn’t an option, so we had
to let Sampson and Delilah, our wonderful buffalo calves
go. I had told him we also raise rare cattle. He later
asked about what else we did breed, so I took the time to
let him know a little about our Dexters and Whites. |
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also took the time to point him in the right direction as
to where he could find buffalo calves. He informed me that
he would keep an eye on our farm as to what we had for
sale and to expect to hear back from him. I truly feel
that if you take the time to give people real customer
service that it willpay off. I have found this to be true
with our chinchillas time and time again. We have sold
several animals later down the line either to new clients
or return clients because we took time with each of them.
We encourage our clients to keep in touch, or at least
keep our information should they ever need us in the
future. I will add that in doing so, many of our clients
have come from referrals.
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