Is this cross would make a good family cow?

[Royd Wood]

twins are the best

Shawnacres - still bugs you eh - how come you changed your name. Twins are not always the best in the cattle world as you well know
Farmerboy - how old is bella now

She is 2 years old. I was told that she was born in March.

ok I understand the urgency to get her served. Theres so many posts on here - can you recap a little - like any farms localish you could take her to. At this stage I would go door knocking anywhere that has cattle and someone with a trailer as a May calf would be good. If someone in your situation came here then I would just need to come over and look at your set up and cow and if all was good I would help. I like to encourage small scale farming (which is us too)and am always willing to help. We got help off quite a few around here Good luck

 

[WildRoseBeef]

Hey farmerboy
13 miles is nothing - True story ok ok its horse semen but a friend of ours left just the straw in the car for 2 days, used it and got twin foals

twins are the best

Shawnacres - still bugs you eh - how come you changed your name. Twins are not always the best in the cattle world as you well know

I've heard tell that twins are even worse in horses. Survival rate for twin foals is much slimmer than for twin calves. And yes, many producers do hate having twins born on their place. Don't know why mr.shawnkfacresfeedgrass likes them so much. :/

 

[angus4ever]

twins are pretty cool but they do come with there problems.

 

[aggieterpkatie]

Twins in beef cattle is usually no big deal, because you still get money sending heifers to the butcher.

 

[ILuvSheep]

Or even green, or grey or black? Or what about white?

Or red or molve or maroon or blue or (dare i say) TEAL???

Lol

How 'bout John Deere Green??? Aka Good o'l green??? LOL

LOL.


Why are twins bad in horses/cows? Seems like you'd want them... :/

 

[SheepGirl]

Twins in beef cattle is usually no big deal, because you still get money sending heifers to the butcher.

X2. My friend has red angus and her cow, Fawn, throws boy/girl twins every year. Usually one or both don't survive, but this year they both did and they're feeding them both out for butcher

 

[Symphony]

Really that's odd that they don't both survive. My neighbor has a pair almost every year and though they take longer at first to grow, they survive.

 

[SheepGirl]

Normally Fawn's calves are lost to accidents (it's always Fawn )...like drowning in the stream, breaking a leg in a groundhog hole, etc. All the other cow's calves survive...it's just Fawn. But my friend thinks this is Fawn's last year...she's like 13 or something now. But her dad wants to send her to auction but she's my friend's favorite cow so she just wants to shoot her and bury her (she doesn't even want to eat her and I just tell her what a waste of 500+ lbs of hamburger!).

 

[Cricket]

In dairy cows, if you have twins and one is a heifer and one is a bull, the heifer is apt to be infertile (free martin). So we don't get to keep either calf in that situation. But if they're both heifers, we raise them. Most of the ones I've happened to see seem to be fraternal twins.

 

[shawnfisher]

In dairy cows, if you have twins and one is a heifer and one is a bull, the heifer is apt to be infertile (free martin). So we don't get to keep either calf in that situation. But if they're both heifers, we raise them. Most of the ones I've happened to see seem to be fraternal twins.

92% of the time when CATTLE have a mixed set- the heifer is a freemartin...