Friday, December 12, 2008

As the days went on, we were concerned that Brego hadn’t learned to use the drinking post. I was getting worried about him not drinking. Brego would look at me, look at the post, look at me, look at the post. Clearly he wanted me to push the paddle for him. Once he even grabbed my sleeve to pull my hand over to the paddle. We were especially concerned that he learn to drink, because we needed to leave soon for California to see my dad & mom, because Dad was in the hospital. We didn’t want to leave home until we knew Brego was drinking ok and getting along with the herd. We needed to keep him separate so he'd drink from the post, while giving water to the others in the stock tub outside of the paddock. Tim had to go out and break the ice daily. At times we kept Brego with his new buddy, Apache, and at other times he was alone in the paddock with just the drinking post, so if we heard the pipes creak in the house we would know it was him at the post.


A few times during this week Tim began introducing Brego to the rest of the herd, first to Cody in the back pasture, with Stider & Apache out front. There were times that Cody would chase Brego off or keep him away from Strider & Apache, and there were some scenes of Brego throwing out his hind legs to kick at Cody, but little contact and no injuries. Cody would stand his ground, and Brego could take care of himself. They were still eating separately with Strider and Cody eating in the back pasture, Brego and Apache in the paddock.

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