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<blockquote data-quote="Silver" data-source="post: 1483698" data-attributes="member: 12520"><p>In a perfect world I would never want twins. I don't mind the odd one when it works out to adopt to a good cow that lost her calf.</p><p>It's very seldom in my experience that a cow will come back off the range in the fall with both calves in tow. Seems like one will invariably get separated and end up orphaned when turned out into thousands of acres of trees and hills. Lots of cows will raise them if they are on smaller pastures but I'm not a big fan of cows raising twins anyway. I feel it takes too much out of the cow and I'll pay the price for that down the line. </p><p>I'm happiest with one good calf.</p><p>In a good year we'll get about 8 sets, bad year 16 or so. Fingers crossed for less this year.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Silver, post: 1483698, member: 12520"] In a perfect world I would never want twins. I don't mind the odd one when it works out to adopt to a good cow that lost her calf. It's very seldom in my experience that a cow will come back off the range in the fall with both calves in tow. Seems like one will invariably get separated and end up orphaned when turned out into thousands of acres of trees and hills. Lots of cows will raise them if they are on smaller pastures but I'm not a big fan of cows raising twins anyway. I feel it takes too much out of the cow and I'll pay the price for that down the line. I'm happiest with one good calf. In a good year we'll get about 8 sets, bad year 16 or so. Fingers crossed for less this year. [/QUOTE]
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