Cow Has Quadruplets


I guess the multiple boom is not just happening to humans, but animals too. A month back a tiger had triplets and yesterday it was reported that a cow in Ontario had quadruplets.

After giving birth to twin calves two years ago, an eastern Ontario cow has really raised some eyebrows in the agricultural community by delivering four healthy calves, two bulls and two heifers.

"She had twins two years ago, but she missed last year," said Lyn Haskins, who owns the farm with his wife Cathy. "She caught this year, big time."

Haskins said Sunday's birth of quads has gotten around and people are eager to have a look at the offspring of Mother and a bull named Wulf's Lowell.

"I've had a lot of people come and take a peek at them," he said. "Some farmers have been in the business 40 years and said they never heard of it."

Indeed, Mother has joined the ranks of a rare breed with her unexpected fourfold delivery.

A 1996 story by Associated Press about the birth of quad calves on a farm in Sonoma, Calif., ranks the likelihood of a beef cow birthing quadruplets as one in a million.

Professor Walter Johnson of the department of population medicine at the University of Guelph said he has only heard of quads being born to beef cows "four or five" times in 35 years in his field.

The calves, are named Hershey (Cathy Haskins works at the Smiths Falls chocolate factory), Scotty, Gladys and Christian.

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