The chance of twin foals being born alive and then surviving more than two weeks is one in 10,000
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By Daniel Mercer and Tom Edwards
Labelled “exceptional” by the state’s most experienced equine vet, twin fillies delivered by a mare at Spurrs Stud at Wagin in Western Australia’s Wheatbelt are still alive almost two weeks after being born.
The chances of twin foals being born alive are considered one in 10,000.
But the odds of both animals surviving past their first two weeks are deemed much higher still, with most pregnancies ending in the death of at least one of the infants and often imperilling the mother..
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