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Goat With Two Heads Born In Ekiti 1 August 8, 2016 by Katowice: 8:52am On Aug 09, 2016 |
It was a morning of surprise for residents of
Osin-Ekiti in Ikole Local Government of Ekiti
State on Friday as a black nanny goat gave
birth to a kid goat with two heads.
Residents of the sleepy town of Ekiti said the
strange birth was the first ever in the history
of the town which has existed for more than
50 years.
According to witnesses, the nanny goat which
belongs to and Octogenarian identified simply
as Mrs. Ola laboured for more than 24 hours
without any success before veterinary
doctors were invited for an emergency
rescue of the goat which was already
exhausted.
“It took the vet team more than two hours to
successfully remove the two-headed
creature from its mother,” an eyewitness
said.
Many residents who witnessed the strange
birth declined to speak, fearing that the
occurrence has ominous undertone.
A middle-aged resident who spoke under the
condition of anonymity confirmed that it was
the first time he would hear of such
occurrence since he started living in the
environment.
“If it were those days of the past, the owner
would be forced to visit the palace to say her
own side of the story of how she came about
the goat and the kid,” the resident said.
“It would be termed ‘fetish and chronic use
of juju’ and the owner might even be sent into
exile if proper explanation was not given.”
Another resident who also begged to remain
anonymous held that a goat with two
heads was the handiwork of evil-doers,
testing their evil powers through this channel.
“It is not ordinary. God doesn’t make
mistakes. Strange things are happening
these days and I think the world is coming to
an end like the Holy book said,” the resident
said.
However, Dr. Abdulrasheed Shuaib, the
veterinary doctor who led the team that
eventually saved the goat from the strenuous
strange birth said it was a mere mistake in
nature.
The doctor who works at Temmy Vet, Oye-
Ekiti explained that though he hasn’t seen
such an incident physically before this one, it
wasn’t a new thing.
He said, “Since issues like that happen in
humans in the form of Siamese twins and
many other congenital abnormalities. It
simply means that during fertilization − the
union of the male sperm and female ovum −
forming a zygote, the zygote was supposed
to completely split to give rise to two
separate fetuses. Incomplete splitting of the
zygote must have resulted in this and
instead of two distinct fetuses, here we are
with a kid with two heads.”
He said such births would have been easily
carried out by surgery.
“Cases like this are usually successfully
done only by surgery (Caesarian section) but
somehow, miraculously, we were able to
manipulate by traction and get the foetus
through the birth canal,” he said.
“It was a nice experience encountering such
though some were beginning to lose hope on
the survivability of both dam (nanny goat) and
kid through the manual method. I told them
we have to get it carefully and professionally
done, since surgery should be our last
alternative.”
Under close gross examination, the baby-
goat had two separate heads joined at the
neck region, two forelimbs and two hind-
limbs. Each head carried two eyes, a nose, a
mouth, a tongue and a pair of eyes. Despite
the fact that the kid was quickly disposed of,
the news has spread around the town.
Dr. Abdulrasheed added that the strange birth
could have been caused by series of
environmental factors and what the goat has
consumed during the gestation period like
chemicals, smoke or haphazard grazing on
unwholesome plants.
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Re: Goat With Two Heads Born In Ekiti 1 August 8, 2016 by ouzo1(m): 9:08am On Aug 09, 2016 |
Am sure some people will blame Gov Fayose for this |
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