Nathan Reiter

Lethbridge Herald

Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

It was something of a miracle of life on the Riverside Colony on Monday afternoon, or at the very least a serious beating of the odds. A Holstein heifer gave birth to three calves recently at the Riverside Hutterite Colony about 30 minutes south of Fort Macleod. Triplets in cattle is an occurrence that takes place in about one out of every 150,000 live births, according to the University of Texas. Twins or triplets in Holstein calves are exceptionally rare. Chances of a Holstein heifer giving birth to triplets is estimated between one in 100,000 to one in two million births, with the likelihood of all three calves surviving skyrocketing to one in eight million. Travis Tschetter was one of the farm workers at the Rivers

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