Fat, twins , both?

[Ky hills]

F1 SimAngus cow (from a registered black Simmental bull and registered Angus cow that was a daughter of Hoover Dam), coming up on 4 calf.
She’s getting close, but could still be 2 or 3 weeks or so from calving as I’ve been thinking the horned cow behind her could drop a calf any day for the last week.
Cows have gotten fat just on pasture as we have sold a lot of the herd and just have 18 cows and bred heifers currently.
She looks really big laying down and grunting like I’ve seen another cow years ago in the weeks leading up to her having twins.
She’ll probably have one small calf and fool me, and one that didn’t look the part may have twins, it’s worked out that way before.

 

[M.Magis]

I had a small frame angus cow once that I swear was 4’ wide as she got closer to calving. Always a single small calf.

 

[Travlr]

My dad bought some pairs with older calves and the Hereford/Shorthorn cross looked huge. But she never calved. Sure fooled me...

Your cows look great. I think it's a big, normal calf.

 

[Ky hills]

I had a small frame angus cow once that I swear was 4’ wide as she got closer to calving. Always a single small calf.

I’ve had them like that before, and this one probably will have just a single calf too.

 

[Ky hills]

My dad bought some pairs with older calves and the Hereford/Shorthorn cross looked huge. But she never calved. Sure fooled me...

Your cows look great. I think it's a big, normal calf.

Thank you, having less than half the cows we normally have has resulted in some heavy cows.
Yeah, I’m figuring on a single calf, not sure it will even be a very big one as the bull is thus far known for smaller calves, but not extremely small.

 

[TCRanch]

The back view laying down, I'm looking at "lunch on the left, rugrat on the right". She looks full but with a normal size calf.

 

[MurraysMutts]

The back view laying down, I'm looking at "lunch on the left, rugrat on the right". She looks full but with a normal size calf.

Always comes to my mind when I see a bred cow any more. That's what I thought of immediately when I saw the pic of her from behind laying down.
Lunch on the left. Rugrat on the right! Hehe
And it's all your fault!

 

[Katpau]

Do you think this one might have twins in there?

 

[Katpau]

The picture was taken June 19th and her last calf was born on March 4th. She wasn't exposed to a bull until May 15, so if she does have twins in there, they they would only be a month along. This cow had a calf that got a nasty huge gash on its leg. We have the pair penned up so we could keep the wound wrapped and covered while it closed up. I was feeding the pair well as they had no access to pasture. Maybe a little too well. I have now cut back on the hay she has access to, and she looks more normal, but she is a wide girl. This is the kind of gut that makes people claim the sale barn cheated them, based on what she weighed at home. There can be a huge difference between the weight of a cow with a full rumen and an empty one.

 

[GoWyo]

The picture was taken June 19th and her last calf was born on March 4th. She wasn't exposed to a bull until May 15, so if she does have twins in there, they they would only be a month along. This cow had a calf that got a nasty huge gash on its leg. We have the pair penned up so we could keep the wound wrapped and covered while it closed up. I was feeding the pair well as they had no access to pasture. Maybe a little too well. I have now cut back on the hay she has access to, and she looks more normal, but she is a wide girl. This is the kind of gut that makes people claim the sale barn cheated them, based on what she weighed at home. There can be a huge difference between the weight of a cow with a full rumen and an empty one.

We had ol #644 that looked like that on pasture barely bred. She just ran around full to the brim if the feed was there.