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<blockquote data-quote="backhoeboogie" data-source="post: 546242" data-attributes="member: 3162"><p>If she is a free martin, her teats usually won't be much at all. They'll look just like a bull calf's teats. If the heifer has teats about the size of a pencil, and about a thumbs width in length, she is probably alright. </p><p></p><p>Some people dip the birth canal to see if it is normal. I don't know much about that and don't have experience with a normal one so I wouldn't know the difference. But, from what I understand, the female part is not normal. </p><p></p><p>If I am buying bottle calves to graft onto the nurse cow and they are heifers, I just look at the teats. It has always worked for me. Every free martin I have ever seen had teeny tiny teats.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="backhoeboogie, post: 546242, member: 3162"] If she is a free martin, her teats usually won't be much at all. They'll look just like a bull calf's teats. If the heifer has teats about the size of a pencil, and about a thumbs width in length, she is probably alright. Some people dip the birth canal to see if it is normal. I don't know much about that and don't have experience with a normal one so I wouldn't know the difference. But, from what I understand, the female part is not normal. If I am buying bottle calves to graft onto the nurse cow and they are heifers, I just look at the teats. It has always worked for me. Every free martin I have ever seen had teeny tiny teats. [/QUOTE]
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