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July 17, a cow named Coco gave birth to very special triplets on a
dairy farm in England. It is very rare for a cow to give birth to triplets. Fortunately, the calves are all very healthy.
There’s one more surprising thing about them; It’s hard to believe,
but they are of different breeds!
Cows usually give birth to one
calf at a time. The chances of
having triplets are 105,000 to one, and the odds of having same sex triplets
are about 700,000 to one. Therefore, it is almost a
miracle for a cow to give
birth to triplets.
The miracle happened to Coco. Even more rarely, she gave birth to
triplets of different breeds! Her owner Anthony Gothard was
very surprised to see the unusual calves. “I still
can’t believe this. This is a miracle,” said Anthony, who runs a dairy farm in Somerset, a
county in Southwest England.
 He was very
happy when Coco had the first calf, which was a male. When he returned later
to see the calf, he found another female calf. He was very
surprised when he returned to check them about an hour later. Coco
had given birth to the third one!
“I have been working on this farm for 20 years but I’ve never experienced such a thing
before,” Anthony said with joy. “Coco gave birth
to two different breeds of calf - two Belgian Blue Cross calves and
one Charolais Cross, which makes it even more amazing!” |
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