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Keeping a twin heifer for a replacement
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<blockquote data-quote="Travlr" data-source="post: 1752686" data-attributes="member: 42463"><p>I don't like twins...</p><p></p><p>I had a really great heifer that I bought from a place that was experimenting with crossbreeding. They had some of the best Santa Gertrudis I've ever seen and they were using the best of other breeds to cross with... and they really knew what they were doing.</p><p></p><p>I bought several of their heifers and one stood out, a Charolais cross. Bred her Chianina and got a heifer calf. And WOW what a calf. She was the kind of animal that dreams are made of. </p><p></p><p>That calf got bred by a little Hereford that jumped the fence. I don't know how he managed to do it because the heifer was six feet tall. He must have backed her up to a stump. That calf weaned at 825. The heaviest weaning calf I've ever seen personally.</p><p></p><p>But... after that the Chi X never had a single calf... she always twinned. We lost about half of them. Some she birthed fine, and some sets had only a single calf survive... and one year she lost both calves. Big, beautiful calves are hard to lose from such a good cow.</p><p></p><p>Her first set of twins had a single heifer survive and I kept her. That heifer had twins the first time out and refused to feed one of them. The next year both calves were dead.</p><p></p><p>After a few years of that I swore off twins.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Travlr, post: 1752686, member: 42463"] I don't like twins... I had a really great heifer that I bought from a place that was experimenting with crossbreeding. They had some of the best Santa Gertrudis I've ever seen and they were using the best of other breeds to cross with... and they really knew what they were doing. I bought several of their heifers and one stood out, a Charolais cross. Bred her Chianina and got a heifer calf. And WOW what a calf. She was the kind of animal that dreams are made of. That calf got bred by a little Hereford that jumped the fence. I don't know how he managed to do it because the heifer was six feet tall. He must have backed her up to a stump. That calf weaned at 825. The heaviest weaning calf I've ever seen personally. But... after that the Chi X never had a single calf... she always twinned. We lost about half of them. Some she birthed fine, and some sets had only a single calf survive... and one year she lost both calves. Big, beautiful calves are hard to lose from such a good cow. Her first set of twins had a single heifer survive and I kept her. That heifer had twins the first time out and refused to feed one of them. The next year both calves were dead. After a few years of that I swore off twins. [/QUOTE]
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