Watch: This Two-Headed Goat Met A Cruel End Despite Being Born Healthy
A miraculous goat that was perfectly healthy despite being born with two heads has been killed a in cruel twist of fate.
The kid, that become something of an online sensation after footage of it was shared on social media, had two distinct heads joined along the skull.
Born on a farm in Kazakhstan, the goat appeared to be normal and healthy in every other way - but before the farmer could decide what to do about the freakish kid, nature intervened and its mother trampled it do death.
Deformity: The goat was born with two heads (CEN)
Shocked: The farmer couldn’t believe his eyes when the kid was born (CEN)
Galymzhan Uteuliev revealed: “Its mother was scared of it and eventually killed it herself by trampling over it.
"It seems very cruel but it would probably not have lived much longer.”
Describing the moment he saw the animal for the first time, he added: “I’d never seen anything like this before.
Tragic end: The animal was trampled to death by its mother (CEN)
Trampled: It is believed the mother was scared of her unusual infant (CEN)
"Each head seemed to work independently and they both had their own different grunts.”
Vets say the mutation was probably caused by a genetic imbalance due to cross-breeding with closely related goats.
