TIL When a cow has opposite sex twins, the female twin is usually born intersex and infertile. This happens because the twins blood supplies are linked, which exposes the female to male sex hormones. en.wikipedia.org Submitted by awawe t3_10pd5bb on January 30, 2023 at 8:31 PM in todayilearned 195 comments 12,005
overeducatedhick t1_j6np42u wrote on January 31, 2023 at 4:59 PM We always called these "freemartin" heifers. We just never tried to keep them as replacement heifers for the herd. Permalink 1
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