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<blockquote data-quote="dun" data-source="post: 161820" data-attributes="member: 34"><p>Nothing wrong with it. Except, twins are harder on the cow to raise and breed back, from what I've sen the majority of the time only one twin survives. They'll be smaller as weanlings and yearlings but will catch up by calving time as 2 year olds. But, they heifers will have a higher tendncy to tein and the bulls daughters will have the same possibilities. My old mentor never kept a cow that twinned or a heifer that was a twin. It was a dairy, but he mantained that over the years they would milk heavier the year they twinned but the production would steadily decline to below their potential and wouldn;t get back to their pre-twinning production. While that may not be as much of a problem with beef cows, if you're pushing the cows to raise a heavy calf, that decline in production might hurt in the long run.</p><p></p><p>dun</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dun, post: 161820, member: 34"] Nothing wrong with it. Except, twins are harder on the cow to raise and breed back, from what I've sen the majority of the time only one twin survives. They'll be smaller as weanlings and yearlings but will catch up by calving time as 2 year olds. But, they heifers will have a higher tendncy to tein and the bulls daughters will have the same possibilities. My old mentor never kept a cow that twinned or a heifer that was a twin. It was a dairy, but he mantained that over the years they would milk heavier the year they twinned but the production would steadily decline to below their potential and wouldn;t get back to their pre-twinning production. While that may not be as much of a problem with beef cows, if you're pushing the cows to raise a heavy calf, that decline in production might hurt in the long run. dun [/QUOTE]
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