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| A kiss from Mum |
My husband came bursting through the door this morning yelling "Come and have a look. We've got twins!" His excitement was contagious, but twin what? DH had just come back from mustering the cows into the yards for their annual Vibrio and Pesti shots. I walked over to the cattle yards with DH and there they were. A boy (bull) and a girl (heifer) and one very proud mother.
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| The bull calf |
Mum, without a doubt, is the best cow in our mob to have given birth to twins. She is so protective and has a huge udder of milk to feed her babies. She is also very quiet and keeps a constant lookout for her babies. The female calf is a bit of a scally-wag and very lively whereas the male calf is just content to feed and sleep.
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| Sibling Love |
What also makes these two calves so fantastic is that their Sire, Craiglea Admiral, had to be put down. He was young and only running with cows for a short while. We had those cows pregnancy tested and there were only six cows out of the mob that he mated with before his untimely death. He was a junior champion bull on the show circuit and we always thought his progeny would be exceptional. We were not wrong.
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| The Milk Bar! |
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