Cow gives birth to rare set of quadruplets in Saskatchewan [Video]

A Saskatchewan family won the bovine lottery after their cow gave birth to a rare set of quadruplets.

Mark and Erin Van Haastert raise cattle on a ranch near Bjorkdale, about 40 kilometres from Tisdale.

Erin was checking on the herd one cold spring morning when a cow made her do a double take.

“I could see two little heads sticking up and I thought ‘oh goodness a set of twins’,” she said.

She went to get a sleigh to help bring them into the barn, and she was soon met with another surprise.

“By the time I got back with a sleigh there was a third one, so then I thought “oh my goodness a set of triplets’,” Erin said.

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But it didn’t stop there. When her husband Mark went to check on the cow an …