guardian.co.uk,
Associated Press, Thursday 29 March 2012
Six-legged calf Lilli has become a minor celebrity in her native Switzerland. Photograph: Peter Schneider/EPA |
A
six-legged calf has defied the odds by thriving despite a vet's prediction at
birth that it would not survive.
Seven-week-old
Lilli is a minor celebrity in her native Switzerland after local media were
splashed with images of the calf frolicking in a sunny field.
Farmer
Andreas Knutti from Weissenburg, 19 miles south of the capital, Bern, says he
couldn't bring himself to euthanise the animal because she was "so full of
life".
He told
Swiss daily Blick on Thursday that a curve in her spine means that Lilli may
never become a normal milk cow.
But Knutti
says that if the calf stays healthy she will still be allowed to join the
others when they head for alpine pastures this summer.
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