Now my grandfather had six toes. And my mother had six fingers and six toes. My brother also had six toes. And his son had six fingers and six toes. You think that's rare?! Have you ever heard of a heifer with five legs and six hooves?
Orlando Romero of Sapello, New Mexico recently bred one named Limousin. And it was not on purpose. Her extra limb hangs from her back and does not touch the ground.
The calf was born naturally last week on a ranch east of Tucumcari, New Mexico.
She is in otherwise good physical condition.
Shane Jennings, Romero's neighbor took one of Limousin's first photographs.
Jennings said:
I thought, 'What in the world is that?' and as I got a closer look and saw the extra leg I said 'Oh boy, what am I gonna come up with next?'"
Jennings said he's seen deformities in calves before.
"But I've never seen anything like this," he said.
Neither have most people, said Milton Thomas, professor of beef cattle physiology and genetics at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces. He said extra body parts are a freak occurrence.
"It's very, very rare," Thomas said.
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