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<blockquote data-quote="Dana Kopp" data-source="post: 91011" data-attributes="member: 873"><p>Well, for some reason I can't see your pictures but with both the sets of twins that we have had there was no size indication of twins. The first set the cow was giving so much nutrition to the calves that she got really sick. We had to have the vet out to dose her with a bunch of vitamins and minerals (and some other stuff too) and about a week later she popped out twins. The vet told us that she would calve in a week or so but didn't say that there were twins for sure. The set we had this year were out of a really framy Heinz 57 cow the first was a bull who was probably around 70 pounds and the second, born over two hours later, was at least 90. The one thing that we noticed (in hindsight) were that both cows were EXCEPTIONALLY sloppy/relaxed in the hind end, hanging open laying down etc. We knew the "usual sloppiness" for these girls before calving from previous years, but didn't put the two together until after.</p><p>Several of our cows are huge before calving and look like they could have another still in there - but they don't. We have a couple that don't show the calf until it is on the ground and the younger ones end up a rack of bones after calving.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dana Kopp, post: 91011, member: 873"] Well, for some reason I can't see your pictures but with both the sets of twins that we have had there was no size indication of twins. The first set the cow was giving so much nutrition to the calves that she got really sick. We had to have the vet out to dose her with a bunch of vitamins and minerals (and some other stuff too) and about a week later she popped out twins. The vet told us that she would calve in a week or so but didn't say that there were twins for sure. The set we had this year were out of a really framy Heinz 57 cow the first was a bull who was probably around 70 pounds and the second, born over two hours later, was at least 90. The one thing that we noticed (in hindsight) were that both cows were EXCEPTIONALLY sloppy/relaxed in the hind end, hanging open laying down etc. We knew the "usual sloppiness" for these girls before calving from previous years, but didn't put the two together until after. Several of our cows are huge before calving and look like they could have another still in there - but they don't. We have a couple that don't show the calf until it is on the ground and the younger ones end up a rack of bones after calving. [/QUOTE]
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