Don't be jealous of my awesome nurse cows

I am really blessed with two REALLY awesome nurse cows.

The first one is Ayan.  She's my gianormous Brown Swiss that my breeder picked up for me at  the Heart of America sale in November of 2011.  She had freshened that June and she's been milking for two solid years as of this month.  I used her as a nurse cow for Fara and Prim and a whole bunch of orphaned beef calves for the auction.  Finally we sent her to the dairy to visit a bull because we couldn't get her to settle with any of the semen we used on her.  FINALLY she got bred...by a.i.  Then she ripped a teat with her dew claw when she stood up one day, and so we brought her home to take care of her and dry her up.

I got Carmelita last year.  She's been my middle of the road Jersey, but she got bred right off (with Cupcake), and then all of a sudden things came together, and she won the county show and got to go to the premium sale.  Then she calved Cupcake and was immediately mother of the year to her and to a little Brangus heifer named Tornado.

Well, Posey calved the other day, and we pulled Cupcake out to wean her, and we brought Perriwinkle over to put in her place on Carmelita.  Perri had nursed on Posey right before we loaded Posey up on the trailer to get her to the dairy and get her milked out.  So Perri had eaten just two or three hours before.  When we got her into the pen and took the rope halter off her, she walked away from us and straight up to Carmelita and latched on.  No exaggeration.  Carmelita is awesome - and Perri is smart.