Regina-area farm welcomes triplet calves

Last week, one of Bobie Caldwell-Dean’s cows welcomed triplets.

On the farm in Central Butte, west of Regina, this isn’t the first time triplet calves have been born. In fact, this is the second time in 10 years that it’s happened.

(Bobie Caldwell-Dean/submitted)

“Google says it’s one in 100,000, but it’s hard to measure because there’s not a lot of records of that stuff kept around,” Caldwell-Dean said on the Greg Morgan Morning Show.

The calves, named Strawberry, Vanilla and Chocolate, were born last Thursday.

They got the names because they were born while the family was eating some Neapolitan ice cream after lunch.

Caldwell-Dean said her daughter looked out the window and noticed a calf hanging out of the mom.

“I got a glove and assisted her, and we got one out and the feet weren’t very big, so we assumed there was a second one in there, and so I checked, and there was a second one,” Caldwell-Dean said.

The rule of thumb, she explained, is if you’re helping with a birth, you always check to make sure there aren’t any more calves still waiting to be born.

Caldwell-Dean said she did just that, and that’s when she felt the nose and the teeth of the third calf.

“I couldn’t quite reach it, so a guy that works for us, he put a glove on and reached and pulled the third one out,” she said.

She called it pretty shocking, but said all three calves are doing well.

The calves are currently being bottle fed, she added.