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<blockquote data-quote="Jeanne - Simme Valley" data-source="post: 63320" data-attributes="member: 968"><p>Farminlund - I know what you are saying. I HATE TWINS!! More often than not, they get tangled up & kill each other by breaking the umbilical cord. More dystocia which takes up a lot of labor time. Also, it causes high incidence of retained placentas, which causes slow return to estrus. Also, feeding two calves slows her return to estrus. The list goes on---</p><p></p><p>Yeah, lots of you will tell of the wonderful experience of having twins. Well, I've had enough of good & bads & I would definately abort one if I had the oportunity. Have I said - I HATE TWINS!! :shock: </p><p></p><p>Twinning is heritable. You might check your cow lines. Also, I know a "rich" farm that feeds grain to their cattle & creep feed the calves 24/7 and they have a much higher incidence of twinning. It can definately be connected to high plane of nutrition at conception time. Always a tight rope between enough nutrition to get them to breed back & too much.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jeanne - Simme Valley, post: 63320, member: 968"] Farminlund - I know what you are saying. I HATE TWINS!! More often than not, they get tangled up & kill each other by breaking the umbilical cord. More dystocia which takes up a lot of labor time. Also, it causes high incidence of retained placentas, which causes slow return to estrus. Also, feeding two calves slows her return to estrus. The list goes on--- Yeah, lots of you will tell of the wonderful experience of having twins. Well, I've had enough of good & bads & I would definately abort one if I had the oportunity. Have I said - I HATE TWINS!! :shock: Twinning is heritable. You might check your cow lines. Also, I know a "rich" farm that feeds grain to their cattle & creep feed the calves 24/7 and they have a much higher incidence of twinning. It can definately be connected to high plane of nutrition at conception time. Always a tight rope between enough nutrition to get them to breed back & too much. [/QUOTE]
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