Mountain Heritage Farm Education

A gentle Dexter cow calmly allows her farmer to approach her newborn calf, just ten minutes after birth at Mountain Heritage Farm.

Meet the Gentle Dexters: Why Temperament Matters

Zara, a red Dexter cow, stands quietly in the pasture beside her stillborn calf, the scene softened by evening light.

Closing the 2025 Calving Season

Dexter milk cow Sapphire with her newborn red heifer calf Ember in the baby pen pasture at Mountain Heritage Farm.

Naming Sapphire’s Calf: Meet Mountain Heritage Ember ✨

Red Dexter calf Ember lying in the grass at Mountain Heritage Farm, showing her baby teeth and underbite — a common trait in young Dexter milk cows.

Did You Know? Dexter Calves Are Born With Teeth 🐮✨

Red Dexter cow Carly standing in pasture before her dry-off period.

Carly Is Officially Dried Off

Red Dexter calf Phil reunited with his bottle calf friends after his mama Vivien finally let down her milk.

Phil’s Big Update: Out of Hiding and Back With Friends

Red Dexter calf Phil in a blue halter standing in front of the barn at Mountain Heritage Farm.

Meet Phil: A Naughty Mama and a Lesson in Milk

Newborn red Dexter bull calf from Vivien standing on fresh straw bedding.

Vivien Welcomes a 54-Pound Bull Calf

Newborn Dexter heifer calf, 42 pounds, standing beside her dam Sapphire at Mountain Heritage Farm

✨ A Jewel Is Born: 42-Pound Heifer Out of Sapphire

Dexter cow being milked with a vacuum machine, milk flowing through tubes into the bucket.

How Much Milk Does a Dexter Cow Give?

Registered red Dexter bull Mountain Heritage Gilbert, A2/A2 and homozygous polled, for sale at Mountain Heritage Farm

For Sale Spotlight: Dexter Bull Mountain Heritage Gilbert

Two-week-old Dexter calf Tom drinking milk replacer from a bucket feeder at Mountain Heritage Farm

Meet Our New Dexter Calf — Sue + Baloo

Gypsy, a black Dexter cow, standing in pasture at the end of her first lactation.

Drying Off Gypsy — End of Her First Lactation

Vivien due to calf in fall 2025 at Mountain Heritage Farm

Fall Calving Anticipation

Young Dexter heifer in training, standing in the stanchion at Mountain Heritage Farm

Training Snapshot: Sapphire

What Makes Dexter Beef Special

What To Do With an Unhandled Dexter Cow

Dexter Bulls

Dexter cow with ideal structure

Dexter Conformation

Red polled dexter cow

Horn Genetics

Dexter Milk Genetics