By Jim Smalley
A farmer at Shaunavon had a rare experience this month.
Kelly Oberle had triplet calves twice in the span of one week.
The odds of one triplet birth is 1 in 100 thousand.
Oberle says the calves are in good health.
He was surprised, saying it has never happened at his farm.
To keep the calves healthy as they grow older, he says there are two options.
He says he may have to buy a nurse cow, a holstein, or put a calf on a cow that had a dead calf.
The sets of triplet calves were born January 20th and 27th.
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REGINA A Saskatchewan farm was shocked when one of its cows delivered a rare set of triplets last week. The surprise doubled this week, when another cow on the same farm delivered a second set of triplets. Kelly Oberle was prepared for twins when one of his cows went into labour last week, but he didn’t expect what happened next.
These triplet calves were born a week ago. (Photo: Marc Smith) When the first one hit the ground, we put her in the chute, my son went in the back and got the second and we kind of jokingly said, let’s go see if there’s a third one, and there was a third one, Oberle said.
(Kelly Oberle/Submitted)
One Saskatchewan farm is getting adept at tripleheaders.
Last week, one of the cows on Kelly Oberle’s farm just east of Shaunavon gave birth to triplets a one-in-100,000 occurrence among cattle, according to experts.
Well, on Wednesday, another of Oberle’s cows decided to milk the idea for all it’s worth and also had three of a kind.
“There’s lots of people that congratulate us and all that stuff,” Oberle told The Greg Morgan Morning Show on Thursday. “I mean, (there’s) not much we really did. It’s just something that happened.”
And both instances were completely unexpected.
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