A wierd incident has left farmers shocked as a cow has delivered a two-headed mutant calf. The strange animal was born on a farm in the Brazilian municipality of Nova Venecia in the state of Espirito Santo on the evening of December 13. It cannot stand up or feed naturally.
Delci Busatto, the son of the calf’s owner, revealed that the mutant calf lives on the family’s farm and cannot feed from its mother but has to feed from a bottle.
He said: “The calf is very debilitated. It has to lie down and cannot get up. Because it can’t stand up, the calf has to be fed from a bottle.”
He said the family have sought an expert opinion from a vet, but even they did not seem to know what could have caused the calf to be born with two heads.
Busatto continued: “We have talked to some vets, but no one has any answers as to whether it will survive or not. “For now, it is just a matter of waiting and seeing what happens.”
The calf was the cow’s third offspring, and the other two were born normally.
The farmers knew that the 6-year old cow was due for delivery. But when Busatto went to the barn on Monday night, it shocked him to see a calf with two heads. Such genetic abnormality could be due to a change in the genome, often caused by the animal’s external and internal environment.
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