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<blockquote data-quote="pdfangus" data-source="post: 750795" data-attributes="member: 6543"><p>I will take a whack at it in general terms</p><p></p><p>I can not site numbers but twinning in beef cattle is not an uncommon occurance.</p><p></p><p>In a fifty cow herd, one year, we had four sets.</p><p></p><p>but most years we had none. </p><p></p><p>The Clay Center in Nebraska once had a study going on where they were looking at incidence of twinning and heritability and productivity. I do not know if it is still ongoing.</p><p></p><p>I think that partiular animals incidence of twinning again is only slightly higher than normal as I have never had a cow twin more than once.</p><p></p><p>but some cows do have a propensity toward multiple births. Only way to tell is breed her again and then sonogram at about 60 days.</p><p></p><p>when we began to do breeding synchrony I was a bit concerned that it might increase our twins but oddly it seems to have moderated it as we have not had a set in five or six years now. Having said that i will probably be covered up with them next year.</p><p></p><p>I would probably feed that heifer a little bit to help her maintain some condition and have a chance of cycling back and getting bred again. Twins can be awfully hard on a young cow if she has a tendency to produce milk.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pdfangus, post: 750795, member: 6543"] I will take a whack at it in general terms I can not site numbers but twinning in beef cattle is not an uncommon occurance. In a fifty cow herd, one year, we had four sets. but most years we had none. The Clay Center in Nebraska once had a study going on where they were looking at incidence of twinning and heritability and productivity. I do not know if it is still ongoing. I think that partiular animals incidence of twinning again is only slightly higher than normal as I have never had a cow twin more than once. but some cows do have a propensity toward multiple births. Only way to tell is breed her again and then sonogram at about 60 days. when we began to do breeding synchrony I was a bit concerned that it might increase our twins but oddly it seems to have moderated it as we have not had a set in five or six years now. Having said that i will probably be covered up with them next year. I would probably feed that heifer a little bit to help her maintain some condition and have a chance of cycling back and getting bred again. Twins can be awfully hard on a young cow if she has a tendency to produce milk. [/QUOTE]
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