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DEXTER CATTLE
Hobby Farms
|January / February 2026
Dexters are tri-purpose cattle (beef, milk and draft). Today's Dexter cattle descend from a herd of hardy Irish mountain cattle assembled by Mr. Dexter, agent to Lord Hawarden, around 1750.
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Dexter roots trace to the tiny Celtic cattle of ancient Eire. By 1845, when author David Low described and referred to them by name, they already resembled today’s Dexter cattle.
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