I still like twins - - - but where I live we can keep a cow calf pair on just over an acre of ground. The cows can take care of the twins with little help and they really grow well.
I have a small enough herd I can give individual attention and I move all cows that have calved away from the rest of the herd and it is normal for the calves to just share cows. This lets the twins get a little extra. I have the hiefer and her twins in a three acre lot with a 12 year old cow that calved the same day and the hiefer calf of the twins goes back and forth. The little bull is staying with his mom.
I will keep them in the lot for about a week and then turn them with the other cows that already have calves.
When the vet preg tested in December she assured me all my cows would calve in April this year - - - I still have 10 to go. I'll turn the bulls in about the 20th of June and hope some of them move up. But then I turned in the 25th of June last year - - - The best laid plans of mice and men!!
I have a small enough herd I can give individual attention and I move all cows that have calved away from the rest of the herd and it is normal for the calves to just share cows. This lets the twins get a little extra. I have the hiefer and her twins in a three acre lot with a 12 year old cow that calved the same day and the hiefer calf of the twins goes back and forth. The little bull is staying with his mom.
I will keep them in the lot for about a week and then turn them with the other cows that already have calves.
When the vet preg tested in December she assured me all my cows would calve in April this year - - - I still have 10 to go. I'll turn the bulls in about the 20th of June and hope some of them move up. But then I turned in the 25th of June last year - - - The best laid plans of mice and men!!