Northeastfarmer
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- Location
- Cleveland
Singles for show....doubles for dough
Happy Calving 2017
- Thread starter HillLuing
- Start date
Haydn Lloyd
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Why some have a lot of twins tho
Loads of twins compared to normal. Not even half way through and more than last year when finished
M-J-G
Member
Can your scanner pick up twins, some cannot.
Northeastfarmer
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- Location
- Cleveland
I had a bull a few years ago that would throw about 8 sets a year without fail, barely get any off the new bulls
willie waver
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- Location
- walking in the ayr
calving, yes. psycho mothers, dopey calves, scours etc, no
Yes last year he picked up 4 sets of twins and that's exactly what we got!
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
- Location
- N.Lincs
- Location
- N.Lincs
Do you know what that is @JP1?It looks more like a mule than a horse to me.
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Says a cutting horse but I agree I say it looks (and acts) like a mule
Haydn Lloyd
Member
Heard from a well educated dairy farmer that if herds have a lot of twins in the herd this is because the cows are under stress not because of good management
wellingtonfarmer
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- Location
- Herefordshire
Bull doesn't dictate twins, it's the mothers that dictate twins...
Simmental are meant to have nearly 20% twin rate
Any advice helpful!
One set of ours twins was to an Old Angus Cow, she calved first one (chocolate colour and white face) fine and was happy with it!
45 minutes later when checked again she is licking a 2nd calve (jet black) and her first one was away being attended to by a heifer...
She is in a pen alone with them now but she doesn't quite like her first calve now!
Nudges it here and there and not letting it sook, tho when I stand with some pipe she licks it fairly happy when it's feeding....
What else can you do except go stand by her every so often till she stops kicking calve away???
One set of ours twins was to an Old Angus Cow, she calved first one (chocolate colour and white face) fine and was happy with it!
45 minutes later when checked again she is licking a 2nd calve (jet black) and her first one was away being attended to by a heifer...
She is in a pen alone with them now but she doesn't quite like her first calve now!
Nudges it here and there and not letting it sook, tho when I stand with some pipe she licks it fairly happy when it's feeding....
What else can you do except go stand by her every so often till she stops kicking calve away???
- Location
- North Somerset.
Just keep at it they generally click after a few days.
Saying that I have a right bitch at the moment that won't let her calf suck and has been like that since Monday when it was born. She bawls for it if it jumps out of the pen but if it tries to suck she belts it. Luckily she is easy to get in the crush and will stand well for it in the crush.
Cow is half south devon half Belty Sire is a British blue
She calved it in a couple mins she was up in ten mins and sucking ten mins later
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