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Why cows give birth one at a time?

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13y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

Actually, cows can give birth to twins although it is not very common. But the main reason that cows can only give birth or have one calf at a time is because that's all the room she allows in her uterus. Her uterus is not large enough nor long enough to encompass more than one, extremely rarely four fetuses at one time. A cow is an animal that needs her young to be up and suckling in a matter of minutes, not nursing them as tiny weak things in a cave somewhere.

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