I know MARC did research on twins - but seems like Select Sires actually was trying to develop a line of bulls for twins. Not sure if it was SS, but that sounds right.
Weather - it has been brutally cold today. -8 with wind blowing = about -25F feel.
Travlr
We calve in pens in the barn. Keep in 24 -48 hours. We turned the last 3 born out yesterday morning. Brought all 3 pairs back into pens this am. Calves had not figured out how to go into their sheds. They were REAL happy to get in barn - so were the cows! We knew the weather was coming, so we fed heavy yesterday so we didn't have to start tractor today. Cold tonight thru morning, but warming up tomorrow. The wind is the bad thing.
We get "lake affect" snow. The sun is up in the sky, you can see it, but when the wind blows like that, it picks up moisture from the Great lakes and drops snow on us. We have constant white outs. Between the snow picked up from the lakes, it picks up the snow that we already have on the ground and causes the white outs. I'm sure a lot of you know what I'm talking about. It's not "really" a storm. We can see the sun, it's just muted from the snow on our level.