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<blockquote data-quote="NoParticularPattern" data-source="post: 7184647" data-attributes="member: 50622"><p>You can blood test for freemartinism I believe? Probably not cheap but I’ve no idea since we don’t bother. We just rear them on the same as the rest then cull fat once it’s obvious. Our record keeping of which were twin to a bull is dreadful as a result but I don’t think our freemartin rate is anywhere near the 90% vets would have you believe.</p><p>Chance wise I guess you’re looking at HH, HB, BB so there’s a basic 1 in 3 chance of it being twinned to a bull if it is a twin, but it is in reality far more complicated than that. I believe there’s a chance that separate eggs fertilised by sperm from different bulls could potentially not be non breeders. No idea how it works in practice though and what the stats are.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NoParticularPattern, post: 7184647, member: 50622"] You can blood test for freemartinism I believe? Probably not cheap but I’ve no idea since we don’t bother. We just rear them on the same as the rest then cull fat once it’s obvious. Our record keeping of which were twin to a bull is dreadful as a result but I don’t think our freemartin rate is anywhere near the 90% vets would have you believe. Chance wise I guess you’re looking at HH, HB, BB so there’s a basic 1 in 3 chance of it being twinned to a bull if it is a twin, but it is in reality far more complicated than that. I believe there’s a chance that separate eggs fertilised by sperm from different bulls could potentially not be non breeders. No idea how it works in practice though and what the stats are. [/QUOTE]
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