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Dairy Farmers Find
Tripiicity A Blessing
LEBANON (Lebanon
Co.) A young dairy farming
family of threcjias found that tripl
icity in other aspects of their life
also can be counted as a blessing.
Allen and Eileen Heagy, who
have an 18-month-old son, Kevin,
have been dairy farming on their
own for two years on a 55-acre
farm just north of Lebanon city.
Recently, one of their mostly
grade Holsteins gave birth to
triplets.
While that isn’t necessarily a
blessing for dairy purposes, Allen
said he intends to keep the two bull
calves for six months to raise for
sale as feeders, and the heifer calf
may join the rest of their 70-head
milking string, although heifers
tend to be sterile if part of a multi-
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pie birth.
Allen said that in his family the
set of triplets was a first “Mom
and dad said they don’t remember
every having any."
His parents, David and Juno
Hcagy, dairy farm in South
Annville. They ship milk to Mt.
Joy Farmers Cooperative.
The father of the triplets is a loc
ally purchased bull.
That may prevent Allen from
registering the offspring, which
may prevent him from getting a
higher price on heifers or bulls, but
he said he is getting good milking
cows by using only local bulls that
come from dams with records of
35,000 pounds milk or more and
those that classify at 90 points or
better.
Konger.
Allen and Eileen Heagy and son Kevin show the triplet calves born to one of their
grade Holstein cows in their 70-head milking string.
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