MoGal
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Week ago Sunday noticed an old charolais cow laying down and here was this soccer ball size hanging out.... we've never had prolapse but have seen several around here with it......... got the cow up, put her in the lot and called the vet. He said because it all went back in when she got up that it was the cervix........... prolapse can happen at any age.
About 4 days later poor thing had 3 (2 red and 1 white) heifers. When she was preg checked in Oct he said she was mid to late 2nd .... we both think she was a month early. I realize with 3 they wouldn't have room to get real big.
Talked to an old fella a couple of weeks ago when we got one of his twin calves to bottle feed (momma would only take one) and he said in all his years of raising cattle that was only his 6th set of twins............. now hubby and I've only been married since 10/06 and we had one set of twins last year, 1 set of twins this year, 1 set of triplets this year (doesn't sound too good for our starting out does it????)
This really skews the calf loss for this year: 4 cows had 7 calves. Hopefully we'll never have triplets again........ how common is that?
About 4 days later poor thing had 3 (2 red and 1 white) heifers. When she was preg checked in Oct he said she was mid to late 2nd .... we both think she was a month early. I realize with 3 they wouldn't have room to get real big.
Talked to an old fella a couple of weeks ago when we got one of his twin calves to bottle feed (momma would only take one) and he said in all his years of raising cattle that was only his 6th set of twins............. now hubby and I've only been married since 10/06 and we had one set of twins last year, 1 set of twins this year, 1 set of triplets this year (doesn't sound too good for our starting out does it????)
This really skews the calf loss for this year: 4 cows had 7 calves. Hopefully we'll never have triplets again........ how common is that?