NEAR WESSINGTON SPRINGS, S.D. (KELO AM) This calving season will be one for the record books at Broken Heart Ranch near Wessington Springs, South Dakota.
Owner Dennis Beckman says his hired man helped one cow deliver four - count'em four - calves.
"Reached in and there was another one and helped that calf and checked her again and she had another one, and checked again, and there was another one," says Beckman.
He says he thought his man was just fooling around when he called him up to come see the incrediable delivery.
"We like to joke around a little bit, and it was the day before April Fools, so I thought he was pulling something, but..."
There must be something in the water in Jerauld County, because Beckman says a neighbor down the road had triplet calves just weeks earlier and that doesn't happen every day. But quadruplets! Unheard of.
"It will be something I will probably see only once in my lifetime,." and Beckman jokes that with these four calves, maybe he'll break even in the cattle market this year.
Mother and calves are doing fine, but there's not much room under there for them come feeding time.