A cow had a calf yesterday...

[Silver]

A cow had a calf yesterday around noon. Not unusual at this time of year. What I thought was unusual was that she laid down and had another one at about 7:00 this morning. About 19hrs apart.
The day before yesterday a cow had a calf that was maybe not quite full term but alive and kicking, and another one that had to be at least 2 weeks premature.... no teeth, hair like velvet.... dead as can be.
Anyone else seen such things?

 

[WyomingRancher]

I've heard of that one other time. Was the second calf born alive?

One of my cows (curse of the red tags :roll aborted a calf in January. I left her in since she hadn't cleaned, and I knew she'd probably get sick. Anyhow, two days later she aborted a twin. The second calf wasn't rotten, so I figured she aborted the first twin and tried to maintain the second one, but couldn't manage to do it.

 

[Shortgrass]

4 or 5 years ago, a neighbor had twins about 36 hours apart, and saved both.

 

[kolanuraven]

I've had both to happen.

We managed to save the calf we later called Velvet.....almost like the one you described as the dead one.

It was a runt of course but it wore a sweater for a long time while it was a bottle baby.

We had to use a real baby bottle as it's mouth was so small it couldnt' take a reg nurse bottle.

 

[per]

Several years ago had a cow in the shed by herself with her calf. 24 hours later she was in the shed by herself and 2 calves. Both calves were full term and did fine.

 

[Anonymous]

Yep-- had it happen 2-3 times....Just had one a week ago in the partnership herd that I'm wintering have a red calf that was plumb fine--still acted kind of funny but I thought she was just cleaning- never thought anything more about her until she dropped a 2nd dead black calf a whole day later...

 

[Haytrucker]

One morning this year we had 4 cows with five calves to untangle, three paired right up, one took a little convincing, and one calf went on the bottle. The next morning the cow that we had to monkey with, had another calf in her pen, so we're thinking the bottle calf was going to have company. The next morning that cow had laid on the bigger of the two calves and killed it, so she settled the whole deal,I guess.

 

[Silver]

I've heard of that one other time. Was the second calf born alive?

Both calves are alive and doing fine. One of two sets today :?
The other situation surprised me even more really. I had no idea a cow could carry 2 calves concieved a good 2 weeks apart.

 

[Les]

yep had it happen a couple times also. A neibour (an older guy then in his 70s)a few years back had a cow that had a very small calf(about 40 lbs) everything was fine then about a week later he came over and said jump in a got sumpin to show you..So he took me to the cow and she was tryin to have another calf.she was having trouble so we gave it a hand..very hard pull..at least 100 pounds out of a little old hereford cow.....

 

[TXSimmies]

We had one heifer that had her first calf....she didn't have a lot of milk so we put both the heifer and her heifer calf into the lot and about 4 or 5 days later she had another calf...a bull...I never got to see this one but I do know it was born dead.
We also had another cow of good size to have a heifer on December 31, 1989 and then another heifer on January 1, 1990...