triplets

Miller80

2nd set of triplets in 2yrs. Never had any before until last year. The poor cow is shook though but calves healthy and great feeders.

jeff greene

Miller80 wrote: »

2nd set of triplets in 2yrs. Never had any before until last year. The poor cow is shook though but calves healthy and great feeders.

Never had triplets and don’t want them either, must be very hard on the cow. Was she scanned, very useful to know in advance as you can be prepared better, what is the breeding?

Bizzum

Miller80 wrote: »

2nd set of triplets in 2yrs.

From a suckler point of view, twins are more than enough work, let alone a pair and a half!
Wait 'till the Dept lay eyes on this and tell you you're ''outside the national average'' and are you sure they are triplets, and how can this occur.....................................Be afraid...............Be very afraid:D

Miller80

cow is holstein fr and was in calf to holstein fr. cow is 4th generation classified ex and has 2 heifers already so it was a pity it was 2 bulls and a heifer. Will chance keeping heifer as we had 2 incidents of twin heifer (with bull calf) going incalf.

johngalway

Bizzum wrote: »

From a suckler point of view, twins are more than enough work, let alone a pair and a half!
Wait 'till the Dept lay eyes on this and tell you you're ''outside the national average'' and are you sure they are triplets, and how can this occur.....................................Be afraid...............Be very afraid:D

Paper cows are much better behaved than those real ones :pac:

stanflt

Miller80 wrote: »

cow is holstein fr and was in calf to holstein fr. cow is 4th generation classified ex and has 2 heifers already so it was a pity it was 2 bulls and a heifer. Will chance keeping heifer as we had 2 incidents of twin heifer (with bull calf) going incalf.

whats her breeding-have you many EX90

Miller80

she is an igniter out of a comestar lee. she has a ruud 96 heifer that is due end of this month,looks a nice heifer... good family for giving females.

Last classification was last august and we had 10 ex's and 45 vg's and 25 gp's. a few we couldnt classify because of quarters gone and 1 or 2 wouldnt classify well.

what happen

the dept will be out take blood samples from triplets and cow they will do same with twins.i never had twins never mind triplets:D the vet was saying that in most cases one of the triplets dies .did the cow calve them herself.

Miller80

no we were lucky that we noticed cow got very thin in short space of time and there was bloody slime, so we handled her. all calves came backwards. calves are fine but cow is struggling. never like losing anything but cow is obviously the most valuable.hopefully she will make it.

whelan1

what are you doing up at 3am;)

Miller80

ha ha Whelan, I knew when writing the post that someone would ask. had a heifer in for calving that I thought would calf earlier. didnt bother going to bed, calved at half 3.

Miller80

oh by the way big improvement in the cow thank god, let her out for grass and was greedy for first time.