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<blockquote data-quote="jilleroo" data-source="post: 531194" data-attributes="member: 8192"><p>Whether or not a cow can rear more than one calf depends largely on the season and if she is lucky or unlucky in the calves staying together. A cow here, depending on where she chooses to calve, may have to walk a fair distance to water. One calf may follow her and not the other. A cow rarely goes looking for the missing calf, being satisfied with what she has.</p><p>In an extensive grazing situation, quite often the twins we find have survived that initial period. Otherwise, we may find a dead or thirsty calf somewhere and ponder on what happened to it. Once they are bonded together, which seems to take only a few days, the twins move as one. Some cows continually check them, side to side, whilst walking along...one...two...one....two!! Others don't care much at all.... If we have decent grass or the cows are in a handy enough position to supplement feed, we rear some great twins on their mothers, especially pairs of steers. If not, we have to pick up one and bring it back to put on a foster cow or milk replacer.</p><p>I would say about only half a percent of our females are identified with twins each year, hardly a major concern. The triplets were naturally bred, no artificial help. We certainly don't expect to see another set in our lifetime. I guess they might be conceived more often than we realise, but maybe abort. Just this cow had enough capacity to accommodate the three little guys perhaps?? A recent visitor from Wyoming, who is a genetic and artificial breeding specialist, said he had never seen triplets and was quite fascinated by them. Will get to those photos one day soon when the kids are around to help me!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jilleroo, post: 531194, member: 8192"] Whether or not a cow can rear more than one calf depends largely on the season and if she is lucky or unlucky in the calves staying together. A cow here, depending on where she chooses to calve, may have to walk a fair distance to water. One calf may follow her and not the other. A cow rarely goes looking for the missing calf, being satisfied with what she has. In an extensive grazing situation, quite often the twins we find have survived that initial period. Otherwise, we may find a dead or thirsty calf somewhere and ponder on what happened to it. Once they are bonded together, which seems to take only a few days, the twins move as one. Some cows continually check them, side to side, whilst walking along...one...two...one....two!! Others don't care much at all.... If we have decent grass or the cows are in a handy enough position to supplement feed, we rear some great twins on their mothers, especially pairs of steers. If not, we have to pick up one and bring it back to put on a foster cow or milk replacer. I would say about only half a percent of our females are identified with twins each year, hardly a major concern. The triplets were naturally bred, no artificial help. We certainly don't expect to see another set in our lifetime. I guess they might be conceived more often than we realise, but maybe abort. Just this cow had enough capacity to accommodate the three little guys perhaps?? A recent visitor from Wyoming, who is a genetic and artificial breeding specialist, said he had never seen triplets and was quite fascinated by them. Will get to those photos one day soon when the kids are around to help me!! [/QUOTE]
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