Ratio seems high

[cowwrangler]

i have 28 cows in and 4 sets of twins so far,all doing good,one of the cows had a set last year

 

[WyomingRancher]

i have 28 cows in and 4 sets of twins so far,all doing good,one of the cows had a set last year

You and Nicky will have to talk .

 

[strawking]

Our neighbor knows a guy from north dakota that runs 300 cows and had 50 sets of twins last year.

 

[Nicky]

OK, I don't feel so bad...110 cows calved and 6 sets of twins. Did get 4 sets in 2 days which was shocking.

 

[leanin' H]

Ya'll best be careful. You get twin numbers like that and your neighbors might decide to string ya up. :wink: There were folks out here who's cows would have 6 or 7 head a year. Makes a guy wish for a rope.

 

[cure]

We have been in the cow calf business for almost 30 years now and I can honestly say that I have only had about 5 sets of twins. In my dairy herd though that is a different story I average out of 200 calvings a year about 2 dozen sets of twins. When I talked to my vet about it he said the only thing he could think would cause this is that I sencro most of my dairy herd and that might have something to do with it. Has anyone ever heard of this?

 

[Faster horses]

I think twins, especially in a herd that doesn't normally twin (Angus, etc)
indicates good nutrition the year prior.

We've mentioned on here before that some breeds twin more often
than others.

 

[Haytrucker]

This is probably an antique observation, but usually the twins and the troubles come early in calving...

 

[miocene]

haytrucker, you are correct. in my herd they usualy come in the first 10 days or in the last 20 .my first 2011 twins out of 150 head commercial&pb cows came today.A pair of hfrs.out of a 7 year old cow,not quite identicals. the cow cleaned within 90 minutes. which i was pleased to see,as usualy twin mothers are slow to clean last year in my pureberd simmentals i had 2 sets out of 20 cows the year before i had 3 sets out of 20 cows