DAIRY farm workers are "over the moon" after one of their cows gave birth to triple bull calves.

Farmer Laurence Goddard, of South Barham Farm, said it had not happened before in his family's 84-year farming history.

He said: "This is absolutely amazing and we are all delighted. Bull triplets is something that none of my farming colleagues have seen before either. It is just unheard of."

The bulls were delivered by two dairy workers on April 12 but could not be interfered with for several days.

A vet checked the animals and their nine-year-old mother on Friday.

Cow triplets are thought to occur about once in every 75,000 births, but they are more common in dairy cows.

NFU South East spokesman Isobel Bretherton she had not heard of another case of bull triplets before.

She said: "Dairy cattle are more likely to have multiple births, but triplets are very, very unusual."

* See the Kentish Gazette (Thursday, April 26) for the full story.