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Beet pellet and free martin question
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<blockquote data-quote="Anonymous" data-source="post: 10869"><p>It comes down to how frequent are multiple births and of those births how many are mixed gender. 90%+ of those heifers born twin to a bull are freemartins. Has this gent had a lot of twins, has the heifer cycled? Even if she has cycled there is no gaurentee she isn't a freemartin but some of them don't. Other then breeding her and seeing if she takes the only other way to know 100% is a DNA bloodtest.</p><p></p><p>dun</p><p></p><p>> I saw beet pellets for sale at the</p><p>> feed store the other day. We have</p><p>> a heifer we are raising as a</p><p>> family cow. Are these something I</p><p>> would want to throw in with her</p><p>> grain or give her as a treat?</p><p>> Secondly, there was definitely</p><p>> dishonesty in the purchase of her</p><p>> and now that I've been reading</p><p>> more I've noticed the issue of</p><p>> free martin. How common is the</p><p>> incidence of freemartins? I guess</p><p>> I just wouldn't put it past the</p><p>> person I bought her from to have</p><p>> known she was a freemartin when I</p><p>> purchased her.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 10869"] It comes down to how frequent are multiple births and of those births how many are mixed gender. 90%+ of those heifers born twin to a bull are freemartins. Has this gent had a lot of twins, has the heifer cycled? Even if she has cycled there is no gaurentee she isn't a freemartin but some of them don't. Other then breeding her and seeing if she takes the only other way to know 100% is a DNA bloodtest. dun > I saw beet pellets for sale at the > feed store the other day. We have > a heifer we are raising as a > family cow. Are these something I > would want to throw in with her > grain or give her as a treat? > Secondly, there was definitely > dishonesty in the purchase of her > and now that I've been reading > more I've noticed the issue of > free martin. How common is the > incidence of freemartins? I guess > I just wouldn't put it past the > person I bought her from to have > known she was a freemartin when I > purchased her. [/QUOTE]
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