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105,000 to 1 amazing!

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JayinNY

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I just read a article in Country Folks about a black Angus that had triplets! They say chances are 105,000 to 1. A 55lbs heifer, a 64lbs heifer and a 66lbs bull. 185 pounds worth of calves in the heifer. I was amazed. So far they all lived!
 
Hay Jay;
One of my uncle's Holstine Cows had triplet heifers. They made the Holstine Fresion News Magazine, back when. I'm gon-a have to look that up. It was big news back then.
 
Well, it made front page in Country Folks, Eastern Edition, I dont know if you get that paper or not? The farm is in Austerlitz NY. Punsit Valley Farm? "One chance in 105,000 statistics say for the birth of triplets in bovine species" As printed in the paper, How they can come up with those numbers is beyond me. But intersting. J
 
In 30 years of dairying, averaging almost 70 cows, we had two sets of triplets. Survival rate was poor, even running full term. Actually, never liked twins all that much. Cows did better with single births.
 
18 yrs ago had cow with 4 calfs, each weighted 47 lbs. Cow died within hours,vet said from liver failure due to feeding so many fetuses and then gone. Overloaded the liver. Calfs all lived but we nearly didn"t what a job to keep them alive. Also all newpaper people and TV reporters almost overwhelmed us. Will post photo later. And no hormones all natural!
 
There was a registered holstein breeder here several years ago that had a cow that had triplet heifers one time. They had a hired man who's wife was a triplet herself. She had two sisters. They named the heifers after the 3 of them.
 
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