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To: Chickensoup

It doesn’t seem as if that’s generally true.

A quick search on the subject says that a female twin with a male twin is likely be infertile. That’s called a “freemartin.” Also, a cow may reject one twin. However, the value to a farmer makes hand-rearing the second twin or placing it with another cow a financial win.


26 posted on 02/28/2019 5:13:59 PM PST by Tax-chick (Please, SMOD, just make it all go away.)
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To: Tax-chick

Perhaps it was the freemartin issue, I was reading about dairy farming and they want heifers!


44 posted on 02/28/2019 7:44:31 PM PST by Chickensoup (Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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