May 11
MERRILL, Wis. -- Farmer and owner, had to look twice at his new calf, Lucy - one time for each nose. "I didn't notice anything too different about her until I got her in the barn," he said, "and all of a sudden I went to feed her a bottle of milk, and I thought maybe she'd been kicked in the nose and there were two noses there."
The second, smaller nose sits on top of the first.
"It's a functioning nose because the middle of her second nose, the flap would go in and out when she drank out of the bottle like that," he said.
Lucy's noses seem to be working fine.
She was comfortable laying there in her bedding and breathing and spunky just like you want to see. It's just that she's got two noses.
That kind of rare deformity is usually not the result of genetics. But breeders do track such mutations.
If by chance this would occur more than a few times, they would start looking at the sire.
Lucy, who was born May 4, will be a pet and bred if she's able.
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