Erdem Çelik (38 years old), who noticed that his pregnant cow had difficulty giving birth yesterday in Bahçearası Rural District of Aydın’s Çine district and the birth did not take place, asked for help. help from veterinarian Hüseyin Aynur and technician Selim Gökçen.
The calf was brought out after about 2 hours of surgery but was still stillborn, surprising veterinarians and farm owners.
It was found that the calf had 2 heads, 6 legs, 2 tails and a double spine. The calf was taken to the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of Aydın Adnan Menderes University this morning for examination.
It was said that the calf, much to the surprise of doctors, was a genetically rare condition and the results would be clear after an autopsy.
PhD from Adnan Menderes University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Pathology. Ayşenur Akkoç said, “Through one of our students, we heard that an animal breeder gave birth to an abnormal calf. We then took it to our department for examination. check.
First, we check its appearance. We took one We will do After the examination we will investigate how it was formed, at least based on the results we will inform the owner of the animal what problems they need attention.
We had previously met a two-headed calf. But at first there was only unity in it. We approached that calf with the suspicion of infection, but it turned out that it was not purely genetic and abnormal but one of those rare phenomena that only occurs in thousands of years.
I think this is the same case. It will most likely become one of the genetic disorders. “We continue to investigate,” he said.