6B – Daily News – Monday, February 7, 2011
Arkansas cow gives birth to rare set of triplets
JONESBORO, Ark. (AP) — Guess it runs in the family: A descendant of an Arkansas cow famed for giving birth to triplets multiple times has birthed her own set of triplets. Rancher David Jones tells the Jonesboro Sun his mixed-breed cow named
Nosy Rosy gave birth to the triplets on Jan. 25. According to Oklahoma State University researchers, beef cattle have triplets in one of about 105,000 pregnan- cies.
Jones says he named Nosy Rosy’s calves Larry,
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Nosy Rosy is the great- granddaughter of a Charo- lais-mix cow named Faith who had four sets of triplets. Nosy Rosy was a triplet, as was the calves’ father, who descended from the same bloodline. Jones says that almost guaranteed Nosy Rosy would have a multiple birth.
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