how we raise 35 Dexter cattle on 30 acres - without buying hay!

When you shared the news about the butcher date for Sammy it reminded me of this story. We buy meat from a farmer that raises bulls for breeding. Some do not pass the tests they are put through so they sell them at market price to folks looking to fill their freezer with locally grown beef. The farmer’s wife works as a teacher at a school I do tech work at and their two kids are students there. I was doing tech work in a classroom where their boy was and I told him we were getting meat from his farm and he replied “That bull you bought from us. His name was Spike”

You probably don't read comments from 2 year old videos. But I wanted to tell you why using legumes for a cover crop may not be a good idea in the future. According to many medical studies as of lately, there is a growing concern about legumes and their role in Auto Immune diseases. Apparently all legumes tested so far have a particular Plant Amino Acid that mimics a essential amino acid called methionine. So when consumed the body will take that plant amino acid and create human body parts from it. Then the immune system searches for foreign objects and when it encounters these imposter amino acids it realizes they are not correct amino acids and thus your own immune system begins to attack those body parts removing them from the system. However that isn't a pretty process that can results in all kinds of diseases !

Thank you Pete.

Your old videos are as good as you new videos. Wish I had a suggestion for you to make them better. Thanks for making them.

Excellent content! Subscribed

Do you mean hydrated lime? Like the white stuff you can get from big box stores?

Quick question as a new cattle owner as well. Do you find the meat has a "grassy" flavor? I am wondering if there is anything I can do to fix that without grain finishing or feeding?

Thanks Pete, I always enjoy your videos

Always educational.

How many beef cows can you sell a year?

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Tons of info! Thank you for sharing all of this!!

Thirty Acres is very opulent. in the Korean countryside

That cow loves you lol 😂
Verne Johnson
Farmall kid 63

Hi Pete! Thanks for sharing! I really enjoy watching your videos and gleaning nuggets to add into my notebook.
Question(s): How or at what point do you determine when to cull your cattle? By weight/age or both?

Pete as always excellent video.

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Great video! We have 14 acres and have it planted with mostly alfalfa and some fescue. We plan on getting about 10-15 mini Herefords and this answered a lot of questions for us. ✌️🤓

Perfectly temperament on those cows. Might as well be show cattle/ halter broke. Bravo!!!

I really like this video. Thank you for sharing such a wonderful experience. Follow

Thanks for the great information you share on your channel, it has been super helpful for me as I am preparing to get 2-3 Dexter cows. One question I have for us is how you control noxious weeds. Do you have to spray or does your grass and alfalfa just out compete everything? I have a constant battle on my land with Poke weed and I feel like I need to solve that before starting to graze cows.

Do you keep them for milk or kill them because they look so cute, cant kill them ;(

rip sammy

Thank you for this video. Perhaps this is a silly question but does this scale down well - say, 2 cows for milk and 2 calves raised for meat on 4 acres of pasture/hay? Would you dare add a bull onto the 4 acres? How do you know when you're approaching the limit of your pasture before you've reached the limit?

Awesome farm. God bless

I have subscribed and also ordered your book — thanks for both!

I think it’s pretty amazing what you have done. Thanks for explaining it to us. Much appreciated!

Can you take the same approach with sheep and goat.

Good explanation. A farmer with brains!!!

Is it me or are the cows clipping the grass and not pulling it out by the roots? Smart cows lol.

How much rain a year do you get?

I'm looking into getting some cows , where should I get started and how much do you make on avg. a year from them? where do you sell and do you need some sort of license or is it some kind of auction? still new on the subject but I would love to get into this type of work if only I knew where to start business wise.

After all these years you have learned the rhythm cycle of your farm and keep in touch with what is going on. Experience is a good friend when times get tough on the farm.

Love your videos. Love the way you do things. I am hoping to be doing something similar starting next year.

Thank you.

I have really enjoyed your channel and you, Pete, are simply amazing. Thank you for taking us along with you and Hillary as you work the farm. What a wonderful family channel to encourage hard work, a sense of pride and fulfillment.

How can you make money?

30 cows 1000 lb each 30,000 lb. Dollar per lb 30,000$.

Watching your video for the first time and I found it awesome and helpful for those afraid of getting started.

Did you encounter with any snake.

Because a full grown cow requires 1-1.5 acres of ground and these cows are the size of my weaning calves. That's how they do it.

Other than that, good work on your grazing routine. Rotation is always the way to go if you can.

You can tell this guy cares. Names his animals, knows his land and plants

What state do you think would be the best state to raise and sell cattle

I wonder how many I could do on my 8 acres… while not buying hay. I live in a much warmer climate that gets even rain year round. 45” normally… but a lot more at times

Growing up in Alabama, my father and uncle raised 50 pineywoods cows on 300 acres of pine forest and woodlands that we prescribed burned on a 3 year rotation. Pineywoods cattle are a small frame heritage breed that’s been around since first settlement. We used rotational grazing combined with burning to mimic the transitory grazing of bison and elk that were here in the early days. The cattle were grass fed with mineral supplements and moved from pasture to pasture with water, minerals and herding dogs. This was the way cattle were managed in the pineywoods south from first settlement up until the 1950s. We were doing freezer beef back before it became popular! How I miss those days!

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I'd love to do this. We have tried, but with a wonky property line and no way to get water to the majority of our place, we are back to just 4 big ole pastures (2 are less than adequate). Sigh.

This dude is really tall.

Any pointers on scaling this down to a breeding pair a yearling and a calf over 5 acres?

You know your stuff bud. Wow