Time between twin calves - CattleToday.com
Apr 7, 2006. #1. Hello everyone. I have been reading on this site for a couple of days now and at the moment I have some free time to start posting. How long has anyone gone between twin calves. We had a cow with a calf, both were fine, tagged the calf in the morning like we always do with the newborns. The next day, went to check before dark ...
Sterility in identical twin calves - CattleToday.com
Nov 5, 1999 · Thanks for your assistance!<p>: Identical twin calves will both be the same sex and should both be fertile. If the twins are a bull and a heifer there is about a 92% chance that the heifer will be steril. That heifer can be palpated by the vet at around a year of age to see if her reproductive organs seem normal.
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May 26, 2009 · 9,930. Reaction score. 16. Location. Alberta, Canada. May 26, 2009. #3. It depends on many things especially the breed of cow. Being a heifer it is more than likely she will not have enough milk to allow the calves to grow to full potential without pulling her down as well and perhaps have rebreeding issues ..
Twin heifers- fertile or sterile - CattleToday.com
Location. Illinois. Apr 16, 2005. #2. Yes, they should be fine. Odds of having trouble with breeding should be same as single heifer birth. Although it may increase your odds of having more twins. Some people don't like twins, some don't mind them. …
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Jun 3, 2007. #1. My 4 year old angus cow gave birth to twin calves about 6 weeks ago. Both of them are heifers and both are healthy and doing well. I've heard stories that twin calves won't reproduce as adults but I've heard several different versions ie if both are bull calves, a bull calve and a heifer and of course if both are heifers as in ...
Need Help Naming Twin Calves! - CattleToday.com
Jan 27, 2011 · 0. Mar 11, 2012. #1. Hey there everybody! This past Wednesday my Heatwave cow had twin calves from the bull Grizzly, unassisted thank the lord, and says she is keeping both of them! The one is an all black bull with the tip of his tail being white, and the other is a heifer that is half black half white in a striped pattern.
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Jan 2, 2014. #1. Had twin heifers first of September. I've done a little research on twins. My question is should I retain them or cull them they seem just a little smaller than another heifer born 2 weeks later. Their out of one of our best cows and a Gelbvieh bull and there the only black heifers we had this year.
Twin calf reproduction? | CattleToday.com - Cattle, Cow
Mar 30, 2006. #6. When you have a heifer and a bull born as a set of twins the heifer is called a Freemartin. There is a greater than 95% chance of her being infertile - the basic cause is from the testosterone from the bull calf effecting her reproductive organs. There is a lot of info out there about this and a lot of new research being done ...
Keeping a twin heifer for a replacement - CattleToday.com
May 7, 2016 · Jun 23, 2022. #10. I have kept several twin females over the years as replacements. See a few sets of twins but no more than from single females. Most of our twins come from cows that were born single. Most dairies that have had twin heifers that have kept them, have seen occasional cases where one will milk better than the other, but never had ...
twin calves | CattleToday.com - Cattle, Cow & Ranching Community
Apr 7, 2004 · In the last 4 years we have had 187 calves with 9 sets of twins. Of the 9 sets 4 had one calf die either at birth or shortly after. 3 sets both calves lived but one was bottle fed. 2 sets the moma took care of both. 7 sets were the same sex. 2 sets were different sex. The free martins were considered steers.