Sunday, January 5, 2014

Countdown to Ayan's surprise party


I bought Ayan at the Heart of America sale in 2011.  She has raised four or more pairs of orphan calves for me, both dairy and beef.  We finally brought her home to dry her up this summer.  She had been producing for two years straight.  We had been trying to get her bred since I bought her...but no luck.  Finally in February, the magic happened.  We had sent her to the dairy to get bred by the bull, but we don't think he ever got the job done, so we had her A.I.ed.  She is due within the week.  Ayan is almost ten years old now.  

She is so big, that they couldn't tell us anything other than she was pregnant.  He couldn't even reach the fetus to actually feel it, he could just feel the nodules on the sack.  He couln't even retract it.  So what she's having is a big surprise.  If it is a heifer, we are going to have to have a DNA test done to determine her sire-whether it is Nick from the dairy or if it is the store-bought sire used for her A.I.  If it is a bull, he's going to the sale.

We're praying for a safe delivery and a healthy cow and calf.


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