A southwest Missouri cattleman has been delivering calves at his farm for a long time, but a calf born this week sure was different.
This one had two heads.
Scott Clift said he delivered the chocolate-colored male calf Wednesday morning at his farm near Aldrich, in Polk County.
Clift said the calf had two fully-formed heads that appeared to be connected to its body just behind the skull.
Clift said late Thursday that the calf lived about a day and a half.
It was unable to walk, so Clift and his family bottle-fed the animal until it died at 6 p.m.
Clift said "We've never seen anything like it."
Few people have, said University of Missouri Extension livestock specialist Eldon Cole.
Such births do happen - the condition is known as polycephaly - but Cole says "They're pretty darn rare."
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