Ranchers witness rare birth

Around 2 p.m. on May 3, ranchers Gordon and Rosalind Alger checked in on one of their Charolais cows due to give birth. "It was a warm, beautiful day," Rosalind recalled. "She was standing there and there were two calves standing near her." "Twins!" she said at the time. The Algers took the baby bulls to the corral, then walked back to the field. "We saw a third baby bull standing all by himself," she said. The Algers led him to the corral to be with the others, then took the cow to join them. The cow walked up to the third bull right away, she said. "It never once crossed our minds she had three," Rosalind said. "This will never happen again in my lifetime." The first three nights, the triplets snuggled close together in the hay. But on May 6, the Algers separated one of the bulls from his mother and put him in the barn. "The cow's barely got enough milk for two," Gordon said...more