[Two images of a brown and white mottled calf lying on the ground. I has two muzzles and one skull. It has 4 eyes with the two centre ones close together.
The text following the images reads,
two-faced calf born on february 28th on breaux farm in louisiana: "This morning 2/28 we woke up to our normal routine of work and school. Checking on the cow that was in labor, we found that she had her calf successfully but with a 1 in 400million chance, she had a calf with two faces. We know this calf will have a short life span and will most likely only live a few days. She has beaten a lot of odds by being born alive and currently still alive at least 14hrs after birth. We have named this calf Deux Face, French for two face."
as of today, march 1st, she is still alive and doing well.
#per the farm's facebook
#as of 10 hours ago she was still alive and as well as can be expected
#she can nurse from either side
#(there's a video - whichever mouth she isn't using still does the motions)
#she's able to eliminate
#she can't stand independently but they've got a sling for her so she can be upright
#and she doesn't appear to be in any pain or distress
#that's about as good welfare-wise as you can hope for
#and to boot it sure looks like she's got four complete and functional eyes
#so you know
#something something twice as many stars
An image of Deux Face in her sling, legs still twisted as she tries to figure them out.
Two images of the cow resting on a black mat. In one her faces are resting on a extra, smaller mat.
#cow
#mutations
#tw body horror
#just in case?
#i hope she makes it to be a healthy adult and gets to see all the stars the other calf only saw for a night
Another set of tags, these reading:
#"tomorrow the farm boys will wrap the calf in newspaper and deliver it's body to the museum"
#no. tomorrow they will build the calf a sling
#so she can almost stand
#they will pet her foreheads and make sure she is fed
#tomorrow they will sit with her in the barn
#check which eyes she can see from
#(all of them)
#check that she is breathing alright
#that nothing is wrong enough to kill her
#tomorrow they will love her.
#and tomorrow they will love her.
#and tomorrow and tomorrow and the tomorrow after that
#and there will be twice as many stars as usual
#but the stars do not compare to fingers stroking across her back
#to the hands that help her upright ever so slowly
#to the love she will know until she dies
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