Silver
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True Grit Farms":10m14nra said:Silver":10m14nra said:Tbrake":10m14nra said:Your saying you have had 10 sets of twins out of 43 cows? That is unreal. I had 146 baby's this spring, only 4 twins. And a lot of them have strong gelvieh influence. Known for twins. (that I found) only about 12-15 cows left. Fingers crossed for no more twins!!!!
Edit: I'm not doubting you, just never heard of so many twins !
I've never heard of it either. It is now 12 sets on 48 cows. I can only assume it is going to stop soon, I've had enough.
It's not luck, good or bad there's a reason for what's happening. Everything in nature has a reason. Did your neighbor feed oat baleage last spring?
Our neighbour did not feed oat baleage last spring. Nature does not always need a reason, there is a chance of twinning involved in every conception. But because the majority of these calves are fraternal I am inclined to believe that conditioning prior to breeding may be playing a roll. Calving season is a long ways from being done, so I won't be coming to any rash conclusions just yet. It may well end up that we have just a few more than normal and that it was just chance that so many came early rather than sprinkled throughout the season.
But for the time being it's a strange place to be in for sure.