'1 in a million!': Alberta family celebrates the birth of triplet calves
CTV
An Alberta family is celebrating an udderly unusual occurrence – the birth of triplets of the bovine variety.
An Alberta family is celebrating an udderly unusual occurrence – the birth of triplets of the bovine variety.
The calves were born on Allen and Sherry Perreault's farm near Morinville in the early morning hours of Jan. 9.
"[Sherry] said 'We've got a calf, we need to go out and bring him in,'" Allen told CTV News Edmonton on Thursday. "So I woke up, we came out, and it was just a tiny little guy. And she was as big as a house, so I said 'Oh there’s two in there for sure.' So we brought the one in [the barn], and we pulled out the [second] one by hand."
"He asked 'Oh, would you like a third one tonight?'" Sherry said. "And I said 'Oh yeah, right.' And he showed me the two feet and it was a pretty unbelievable thing."
The Perreaults say out of the 50 or 60 calves born on their farm every year, they usually see several sets of twins, but triplets are rare.
Sherry says she never saw a set while she was growing up on her parents' farm.
