Ayan is back...and her family is changing!

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Ayan came back from the breeder this week!  Of course that means that FARA and BANJO (aka Bucko, Bully, or whatever we call him at the moment) came back, too.  Ayan was gone for a month.  We took her to the breeder so he could catch her in heat.  Since Ayan has been in a pen with just her calves, there's no way for a heat tape to work, and there would never be any animals trying to mount her, so we would never be able to catch her in heat.  Alan was nice enough to offer to let her stay there with his herd until she "passed over" her next heat.  If she came into heat, we would know that she is not pregnant,  and he could A.I. her again.  If she showed no signs of heat, then we could bring her home and get her preg checked sometime.

They've only been gone a month, but it seems like forever!  I can't believe how big FARA has gotten!  WOW!  She looks awesome!

Banjo is looking good.  Looks good enough to sell!  We don't want him to spend the night at the auction, because he will "shrink" since he will be away from his momma and not getting her milk.  We want him to be fat and healthy to bring a fat and healthy price!  I hope to make a good profit.  I only have $200 in him.  That's what I paid for him.  He's been putting on all his weight from Ayan's milk.  He's not as big as the last beef bull I had, but I kept him longer, so he was older and he was on an all you can eat diet of Ayan's milk and feed from the creeper.  When I sold him, his rump banged the guard in front of the creeper every time he went in and out.  Anyway, Banjo bully is headed to the sale bright and early Tuesday morning!  I've sold animals at Bristow and Perkins, and now I'm going to try the OKC sale.

PRIM is in the pen with Ayan's little family.  She nurses all she can from Ayan, but we figured there can't be enough for all three of them considering how big the other two are.  So we let her nurse all she can, and then we also started out supplementing a bottle in the morning and 3/4 of a bottle in the evening.  Then the other morning, she just messed around with the bottle and that night, she only took about 1/4.  Her belly also looked full.  Hopefully tomorrow she won't need any at all.  Then Tuesday, when bully bully is gone, she will have all she can drink!

Ayan treats her just fine.  From what we've seen, they have all treated her fine, but Christy says that she's seen Fara head-butting Prim like, "This is MY momma!  You go away!"  Once we get the bull hauled to the auction, and they have to share less milk, maybe Fara will be nicer to Prim.

Prim seems perky and happy.  Her little tail just wags and curls.  She runs and jumps and kicks up her heels!