Bye Bye!!!

Even though I would like to keep them all forever, there are not enough resources to.
At dark-thirty the other morning I had to load up Ayan, my almost-ten-year-old Brown Swiss nurse cow, her bull calf, Andy, and Manly, the Lineback bull calf.  MawMaw took me to school, and my mom hauled them all down to the Oklahoma City Stockyards.

I haven't gotten rid of any in a long time it seems.  Faith, the Holstein, got sold to a dairy.  I sold Juicy's bull calf to my breeder.  The rest of them have all been "orphan" calves that were raised on the nurse cows just for the auction.

I'm not sure how I feel about this load going today.  Ayan is one of the best nurse cows in the world, but she was SO HARD TO BREED BACK.  It took over two years!  Then she injured a second teat.  Then she hardly had any desire to push during calving.  On top of all of that, she's HUGE and eats A LOT.  (She's not very friendly either.  She's stubborn.  She doesn't like to be petted/rubbed.  You would think she wouldn't be any of those things considering what a FANTASTIC nurse cow she is.)

There, I just talked myself into the idea that selling them is okay.