Calf born with two noses

On a farm in Oregon Co., Missouri there is a true oddity of nature, a calf born with two noses.

Kenneth Hall has been working his cattle farm north of Alton, MO for 40 years and it's something he's never seen before.

"No there's no mouth attached to it or anything," said Hall. "The nose does have some mucus in it and it does move."

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He calls the calf "ole Noser" and Noser was born back in early May. Ken says he first thought the calf had a tumour.

"Got to looking and found out it was an extra nose," said Hall "You could see the eye socket on the left side of the head where the ear should be and it was going down the side of the head. I knew i had an oddity here."

Ken's a retired school teacher and says after a little research he learned Noser's about a 1 in a 1,000,000 calf. "I would say the old cow had twins," explained Hall. "The nose looks to be about 3 months maturity. Either that twin died and this calf ate it, soaked it up, or this mom wasn't giving it enough nutrition and the mom soaked it up. "Things like this don't live. Mother nature has a way of taking care of mistakes. It has both male and female parts. I just noticed then, it has male urinary tract, but it was using female out the back tract. That means it has one opening, but they're hooked together."