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<blockquote data-quote="kjonesel" data-source="post: 841745" data-attributes="member: 16842"><p>I grew up on a 400 cow dairy and over the years we had a few sets of twins. With twins you are faced with calving complecations sometimes with one's legs coming out under the other calf, both of them trying to enter the birth canal together, one being born dead because it possibly had it's cord around the other one. I can't remember but the bovine has a different sac than say a hog or other animal that has multible young. In twenty years on Dad's dairy we never had a "free martin" (twins of opposite sexes) female breed. So if you do have a set which consists of a heifer and bull just go ahead and feed out the heifer. As the other people told you it takes additional management in a beef herd to work with twins and I personally wouldn't want it. Now I have read several stories where in the Gelbvieh breed twins are more common than other breeds and Gelbviehs are known as great mothers. I really don't want to be blessed with them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kjonesel, post: 841745, member: 16842"] I grew up on a 400 cow dairy and over the years we had a few sets of twins. With twins you are faced with calving complecations sometimes with one's legs coming out under the other calf, both of them trying to enter the birth canal together, one being born dead because it possibly had it's cord around the other one. I can't remember but the bovine has a different sac than say a hog or other animal that has multible young. In twenty years on Dad's dairy we never had a "free martin" (twins of opposite sexes) female breed. So if you do have a set which consists of a heifer and bull just go ahead and feed out the heifer. As the other people told you it takes additional management in a beef herd to work with twins and I personally wouldn't want it. Now I have read several stories where in the Gelbvieh breed twins are more common than other breeds and Gelbviehs are known as great mothers. I really don't want to be blessed with them. [/QUOTE]
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