Fertilizer?

[grassfarmer]

Interesting picture Nerves, with pasture containing that much legume you won't need bagged N - but you already know that with the excellent conception rates and calving period you are getting. Most people would feed a high phos mineral to cows at breeding time to aid conception but you must be getting it into them through the pasture, maybe a more natural and better way? As for twins - that's a high percentage you are getting. Some people in Scotland were getting rates approaching 20% by feeding pot ale syrup (a whisky byproduct) at breeding time and I think it has a high phos. content so maybe there is something to it. I would love to run at 10% twins or even a bit higher - cows can manage them fine if you know they are carrying twins. I wish I could find someone here to ultrasound scan the cows - it is so much better than the manual exam but my vet won't believe me.(by scanning you know the twins every time)

[GrnAsMoss]

Nerves, this amount of twins seems unusual, what breed/cross of cattle do you calve out? Do your heifers preform as well as your cows with twins? This is very curious and worth looking into. I've always thought scientists should genetically cross cattle with gophers to get higher conception and birthing rates. If they can get spider web juice from goats milk anything's possible (biosteel).

[nerves]

Yes moss, they do make that 4 sets a hiefer had a set this morning. The breed is charolais and are not known to have a high ratio of twins.