National Dexter Beef Website

Penny · Post by **Penny** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 10:50 pm

I think you have the balance of the site just right. To achieve so much in such a short time when you have been busy calving and lambing is impressive.
I have some recipes to send too, and I know there have been many good ones printed in the Bulletin and in group newsletters.
Sadly (for my family) I often put something in the oven and then forget about it. But I always say of dexter beef that it may look incinerated, but it is still edible when other beefs would not be!
I am listed on the site, and I strongly recommend other producers to join, so that as many regions can be covered as possible. However big or small your beef business may be, this site can only be beneficial for both your venture and the breed as a whole.

Penny Hodgson

Broomcroft · Post by **Broomcroft** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 8:55 am

Thanks Penny

You leave things in the oven! In my batchelor days, I once put a beef pie in the oven (a piece of equipment I never used, I lived on take-aways); six weeks later I remembered it. It was a bit tough.

Inger · Post by **Inger** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 10:57 am

Now that's a bit sad Broomcroft. :laugh:

Kathy Millar · Post by **Kathy Millar** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 4:22 pm

Sorry, Clive, for not replying sooner. All that I know of regarding Dexters on Canadian websites is the Canadian Dexter Association and I understand that is being overhauled at the moment. Good to hear of your interest in grass-finished. With all the interest in the US in ethanol production, the feed lots are going to have a lot of competition for grain which puts the grass-finishing folks in a good position.

Just a coouple of anecdotes:

When I asked my local butcher about Dexter meat just before taking in my first steer, he said it always grades high.

A friend of mine took the 6 month meat cutting course at Olds College in Alberta. At the time he had a hundred or so commercial beef cows and finished the calves in his own feed lot (he has over a thousand acres) and wanted to do his own butchering. One day he was cutting up a carcase that was so outstanding he asked what breed it was and they said, Dexter. Well, he sold off his cow herd and now raises Dexters and no feedlot. End of story......

:D

Broomcroft · Post by **Broomcroft** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 9:00 pm

I would like to announce the first enquiry for beef to a subscriber to Dexter Beef Online. I was expecting it to be months before anything started to happen, so this is good news. There may well have been others but we would not know.

The site is now being submitted to 100 search engines directly, and up to 3000 indirectly, every month.

Many thanks to those who have taken a listing. We need more to cover the country, as a minimum. I believe/hope that details are going out in newsletters over the coming months.

PS. The site may slow at the moment, but will speed up as entries are added and split into areas.

wagra dexters · Post by **wagra dexters** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 3:22 am

Congratulations. That's great .

Broomcroft · Post by **Broomcroft** » Sun Apr 08, 2007 9:40 am

Hi

I've put a gallery with slide show on the Dexter Beef Online site. If you've got any good photos you'd like put on, whether you're listed or not, please send them to me at clive@dexterbeefonline.co.uk and I'll have a look. Thanks.

Kathy Millar · Post by **Kathy Millar** » Sun Apr 08, 2007 5:36 pm

Clive, what a great website!

:D

"Deliciously Dexter" "The Small Cow With the Big Taste!"

Broomcroft · Post by **Broomcroft** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 11:27 am

Hello

We now have our first reported sale of beef from a visitor to the site. This sale is to a customer who has never tasted Dexter, which is of course what we wanted, new business.

If there's anyone thinking about an entry but hasn't taken it it yet, we really could do with filling up the map on the site with at least one supplier in each county or thereabouts. So get that mouse working! And PS. You don't need a photo if that's a problem.

Rob R · Post by **Rob R** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 4:35 pm

It's on it's way...

Martin · Post by **Martin** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 5:14 pm

Hi Clive,
I had my first enquiry about beef from the web site today, I believe it will become a great success.
Martin. Medway Valley Dexters, Kent

Broomcroft · Post by **Broomcroft** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 7:12 am

That's great Martin. We still need more entries to fill that map; but they are trickling in slowly. I am doing the stand at the Smallholders show next month, and half will be purely Dexter Beef, the other half Dairy. DBO will be very visible on the beef side and it's that sort of constant plugging that will win through, not just relying on people searching the web. It would be nice if perhaps other groups throughtout the country could adopt a similar approach at shows if they feel it is a good thing. We'll report back.

The web though it is apparently now the first port of call for many and is expected to be so for nearly all, eventually. Even the railway time tables will cease to be printed next year I understand.

When we have enough entries to make it look like proper nationwide coverage, we will then attempt to slowly fill up a restaurant/pub section for people who just want to eat out and have Dexter. Again it'll take time and constant pressure which is what we will be doing.

wagra dexters · Post by **wagra dexters** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 11:18 am

It is certainly working!! The enthusiasm associated with your beef website has inspired me. I told the kids to each get one friend interested, and they did.
Once I had decided what I wanted to do, I asked the next person who walked into the hotel if he new anyone who would be interested. He was. Next day, a friend of his phoned. She got her meat today, and has ordered two more sides.
Today, two more bookings, because we have no spare meat left in the freezers, except our own 3 yo cow. Not my choice of meat, but I will suffer it, having done well on the six sides sold.