2022
DOI: 10.36111/jvmohr.2022.4(1).0031
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Review on the Impact and Consequences of the Occurrence of Multiple Births in Cattle and Goats

Abstract: Background: The large animal species such as cattle, buffaloes and horses are monotocous with one or sometimes two newborns per birth whereas small farm animal species such as sheep, goats and pigs are usually polytocous animals are highly prolific and especially pigs often produce a dozen newborns at each farrowing. Cattle usually produce only one calf per gestation resulting from ovulation of a single follicle. The most common form of twinning in cattle occurs due to multiple ovulations which may produce diz… Show more

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