Earlier this week, a vet came across a rare cow born with three eyes during a routine check on a beef farm in Brynmawr, North Wales.
Malan Hughes was testing cattle for TB when she made the discovery on a beef farm in Brynmawr in North Wales.“Vets tend to see all sorts of things—cyclops lambs and animals born with two heads—but I have never seen anything like this before.
“From the outside, the extra eye looks fine. It has eyelids and eyelashes, and it is moist too, as if some kind of lubricant is being secreted.”She added that while the calf’s eyes looked healthy, it is “impossible to know if anything is going on behind the eye.” Hughes told the publication that the third eye is likely to be the result of a developmental anomaly that occurred before it was born.
“It does not act any differently from any other calf,” she said. “As a veterinary practice, we will certainly be treating it with the same care we give every animal.”“Our chief livestock adviser had not heard of this before, so presume it’s very rare and a result of genetic issue or problem when the cells were dividing in the embryo. As rule we see very few abnormalities in cattle. They assume there will be no welfare issues and the animal will grow normally.
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