Twins

[robin walker]

My black Ashieburn cow has just produced two lovely twin red calves AI to Planetree Talos . Both are very healthy , not that it's a down side but they are heifer and bull . As we know if a heifer is twined with a bull calf the heifer is normally infertile .
Duncan MacIntyre has told me that this is 1/25 that the heifer may take , I just wondered if anyone having had mixed twins if the heifer went on to produce ?.

[domsmith]

When we were raising dairy veal calves i had several heifers sold to me by the dairy farmers as they were free martins. me being me, i love dairy cows so used to keep them on to see what they did. i had 2 that held the bull and were sold back to the dairy farmers in calf, they loved that!!
i had some that were udderless and clearly infertile.

dominic

[Kate]

Congratulations - can we have a photo !!!!!!

kate

[Broomcroft]

We had a few sets of twins, all the females were freemartins. One in twenty are Ok I was told. One advantage, they keep the cow fit

[ann]

nice to hear from you again clive I thought you had deserted the dexters

[Broomcroft]

nice to hear from you again clive I thought you had deserted the dexters

Not deserting Dexters Ann, but we are coming out of cattle this year and going sheep only. Just down to a few old ones now except a couple of exceptionally nice crosses which I'll try and sell in the autumn rather than cull them if I can.

[ann]

How can you desert our lovely breed for sheep

[Rob R]

All this talk of twins made me think we were getting some the other day, when a decent sized cow with a large belly calved a small calf but, alas, there was nothing else in there. But it was a heifer, so I was relieved about that.