It's an unlucky #7 for a calf born with a few extra legs in Steamboat Springs,Colorado.The Steamboat Pilot & Today of Steamboat Springs reports that a veterinary hosiptal helped deliver a seven-legged calf Thursday.The staff at the veterinary hosiptal said the Black Angus calf,which was delivered by cesarean section,had two spines but one head.One leg also had two hooves.The calf lived for only about 10 minutes.Veterinarian Lee Meyring says the birth was an incomplete splitting of the embryo into twins....he says he had seen a calf with a fifth leg,but the seven-legged calf was the most bizarre he has ever seen....the hosiptal says the calf's owers do not want to be identified.....My take on this...the owners know they would have no peace,because of the media attention....news:The%20Associated%20Press
That's just too horrible to contemplate.One more leg and it would have been a spider.It's a mercy to the poor thing that it did not live.It would have suffered terribly.
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Yes it will in up in the Smithsonian..if it lived ,maybe they would have had pity on the poor thing and put it to sleep..
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