A
cow in New Zealand has delivered a deformed calf who has two bodies,
four ears, and eight legs on Monday. A veterinarian of dairy farm, Neil
Davy, who delivered the stillborn calf , told the website NZ Farmer that
if he hadn't been there, the mother cow would have surely died. "It was
hard going," Davy told the website, "I was up to my elbows in lube and
calf goo, sweat coming off my forehead. It's not nice to see a cow in
distress." Wow, another genetically mutilated birth. Another picture
after the break ...
Davy told the site that he'd originally thought he was delivering
twins. Close enough: identical twins come from one egg that divides, and
veterinarian Jonathan Spencer told NZ Farmer that Davy's calf "[seems]
like an incomplete divide of an egg." Other odd deformities have been
known to occur in cattle. In 2012, a calf with an extra pair of legs was
born in Switzerland. Although vets didn't initially think the
six-legged cow had much chance of survival, the calf seemed to be doing
just fine at two months old. In January 2011, a two-headed cow was born
in Georgia. The farmer said that the animal ate with both heads.
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