Right, he was not aware of the twin situation when he bought the first one.
I threw in the auction part for general advice, my 2 bits worth.
I've only been messing with cows for a decade or so and I remember what it was like to be brand new to them and trying to find a footing.
In this area people take problem cows to the auction to get rid of them: fence jumpers, failed to breed, failed to mother, sterile, bad posture, poor fleshing, one leg shorter than the others, two heads and no tail, etc. At my level of experience I can not sit at an auction ring and eyeball an animal quickly enough to make a decision before they've sold it and moved to the next one. A beginner has a high probability of disaster in this scenario IMO. However, buying a bottle calf was kind of a wash on risk because they're so young. The worst thing in that case is if it dies and that didn't happen.
Frankly, I wouldn't buy bottle calves either. I'm just not set up for it and it's just not for me. Used to the dairies would give them away, then they were $50 bucks and then a couple years ago people were paying $300 bucks for them. I don't know where they're at now.
Buying directly from a rancher was the right thing to do, it's just than a fairly rare twins situation has happened.
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