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Lancaster County dairyman, Tom Kirk, poses with triplet Guernseys, Binky,
Bunky and Bonky. (You guess which is which.)
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By Susan Kauffman
Staff Correspondent
PEACH BOTTOM - Tom
Kirk, a young dairyman
from southern Lancaster
County, is the surprised and
very happy owner of triplet
heifer calves born to one of
his Guernseys several weeks
ago.
At the tune of the ac
companying photo, the
calves were three weeks old.
Tom says they, are all
“spunky and full of am
bition.” All three were
walking within three hours
after birth he said.
Tom recalled the
momentous morning in late
September, when he brought
the mother and her two
heifers, he supposed then to
be just twins, from the dry
cow bam into the maternity
and calf pen bam. It was
about six m the morning
when he brought them to the
pen.
Expecting some difficulty
with cleaning for the cow
since she had the twins, Tom
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tried to insert a pill into the
cow’s uterus and came
“smack into another calf,”
as Tom explained. Ap
proximately three hours
after the other two had been
bom, Tom delivered, to his
surprise, another live heifer.
All three were fairly equal
in size at birth weighing m at
around 35 pounds apiece,
Tom said. At the end of the
third week, Tom guessed
their weights at 40 to 50
pounds each. One calf had a
cold which Tom treated with
Tylan for five days. She
maintained a good appetite
even during the cold. The
other two thrived and con
tinued to grow at a steady
rate.
A normal newborn
Guernsey heifer might
weigh 60 to 70 pounds, Tom
explained. After three
weeks, the triplets are
reaching the normal
newborn weight.
When asked about the
dam, Tom said she was one
of his 4-H and FFA animals.
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This was her third calving.
She had had no history of
multiple births for several
generations, Tom said. The
mother. Cedar Fringe Bert,
is an average to small
Guernsey according to Tom.
He had not noticed her being
unusually big before calving.
Five days after delivering
the triplets, Bert was
operated on for a twisted
stomach. She was also
treated for an uteran in
fection, but despite her
ordeal, Tom said she would
probably record 50 to 60
pounds of milk for the DHIA
supervisor that week, the
third since the multiple
birth.
Tom plans to raise Bwky,
Bunky and Bonky, as he
calls them for the time
being, and put them into the
milking herd, which he and
his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Francis Kirk, own. They
milk 130 head and this year
so far they have had five sets
of twins in addition to the
triplets.
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